On the occasion of today's Annual Meeting, The Association of Genoese Shipping Agents has addressed the the impact of the current geopolitical crises on maritime traffic, highlighting a dramatic underestimation of the Danger related to the possible closure of two or more chokes strategic bottlenecks through which more than 80% of maritime freight traffic transits, raw materials and finished products. "With Suez de facto open only to the traffic of ships reaching Jeddah and the ports of the west coast of the Saudi Peninsula - noted the president of Assagenti Genova, Paolo Pessina - even just another crises in strategic straits such as that of Hormuz through the which 20% of the world's oil transits, or through the Strait of Malacca, vital for trade to and from China and for the subcontinent of Asia, the world economy would risk collapse with a leap into the void for entire countries if not entire continents'.

Data on the strategic nature of choke points and consequences that a blockade of them would cause, and not only to trafficking have been highlighted in a study that the Centre for Seafaring Giuseppe Bono has elaborated for Assagenti and that has been presented by Admiral Sergio Biraghi, former Head of State Major of the Navy. The study shows that if more 80% of trade travels by sea, today almost 50% of the strategic areas through which this traffic are considered to be at risk or due to the geopolitical issues or for concentrated acts of terrorism and piracy or, finally, natural phenomena such as drought which has decisively limited operations in the of Panama.