Not every chokepoint reading means the same thing.

A chokepoint ranking is easy to misread. If Singapore / Malacca is leading the friction table while Hormuz is lower, that does not mean Singapore suddenly matters more than Hormuz geopolitically.

It means Singapore / Malacca is trading further away from its own recent baseline right now. The ranking is relative, not absolute.

That distinction matters because the signal is supposed to flag abnormal route behavior before it necessarily turns into a clear macro oil story. A lane can be the most dislocated on the screen and still be a more local freight issue than a global supply one.

The macro read changes when multiple major lanes start tightening together, especially if Hormuz begins to close the gap and the move starts to overlap with stronger oil-sensitive headlines.

The full beta view keeps the lane-by-lane history, anchoring share, through-movement, and linked news context so the user can decide whether the stress is localized, persistent, or broadening into a bigger freight signal.