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A World Ports Organization article outlines major shipping chokepoints including Suez, Panama, Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, Malacca and the South China Sea. It cites shares of world trade and energy flows passing through each.
The piece is a general primer on supply chain vulnerability with no new event.
Disruption at any chokepoint would raise freight costs and delay feed ingredient shipments, but this background piece reports no current disruption that moves prices.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.