Global Watch Tower
Where shipping, hazards, connectivity and reporting converge
Twenty-eight maritime chokepoints read against four independent layers: measured daily transits, hazards with published coordinates within 600 km, detected internet-outage signals in the coastal states, and attributed reporting. A chokepoint is convergent when three or more layers are flagged at once.
Reading all layers…
Transits are published daily with a few days' delay; the last 7 published days are tested against the 28 before them, allowing for each strait's normal day-to-day swings, and only changes that survive a false-discovery check across all 28 are flagged. A strait running at half or less of its published annual daily rate is flagged even when the slump is already weeks old. Outage signals name coastal states with a detected outage event in the last 24 hours, of any scale. Reporting counts headlines naming the chokepoint from two or more outlets.
No major hazards open.
Space weather now
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Radio blackout · radiation · geomagnetic storm (0–5). Above 2 affects satellite navigation and HF radio.
Tsunami messages
None issued
Volcanic activity this week
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weekly published reports
Each corridor is read through its coastal landing states: detected outage signals there, and headlines that name a subsea cable together with the corridor.
No outage events detected.
Ordered by signal strength. A signal can be a short regional dip as well as a national shutdown.
with access
| Theatre | Headlines | Outlets | What the reporting is about |
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with access
The Watch Tower reads the world; these instruments go deeper into the region.
With access: — civilian nuclear plant sites (— in and around the region), — mapped subsea cable segments, — publicly listed defence installations, reference closes for energy and rates, and crowd-forecast markets on shipping and energy questions.
Feed this board into your own systems or an operations-room screen: Data Feed & War Room Wallboard →
Global Watch Tower · access
Included in every Sovereign Observatory licence. Available on its own for desks that need the global picture only.
Watch Tower · 24-hour pass
$120
one-time · full board for 24 hours
The whole board during a breaking development: all 28 chokepoints, every hazard, connectivity and cable layer, theatre reporting, advisories and displacement. No renewal.
Chokepoint & Cable Watch
$590/mo
full board · email alerts · dossiers included · monthly
For trading, shipping, insurance and logistics desks: pick the chokepoints and cable corridors that matter to you and receive an email when transits drop significantly, a hazard comes within range, landing states lose connectivity or layers converge.
Global Disruption Dossier
$750
one chokepoint · printable
One chokepoint in full: five weeks of daily transits by vessel type, the significance test, regional peers, hazards within range, connectivity and advisories of the coastal states, cable corridors, live and archived coverage — in one printable file.
War Room Wallboard
$1,200/mo
full-screen display · unattended · monthly
The global board on your operations-room screen: a full-screen display that rotates through the world map, flagged chokepoints, hazards in range, connectivity signals, cable corridors and the attributed wire, refreshing itself every minute with capital clocks. Pair any screen with a private display link; no one needs to sit at it.
Watch Tower Data Feed
$1,850/mo
API keys · signed webhooks · monthly
The board as structured data for your own systems: up to five API keys (600 requests an hour each) returning every chokepoint, transit series, hazard, connectivity signal, corridor and attributed headline as JSON, plus signed webhooks that push each new development to your endpoint the hour it appears.
Measured counts, published coordinates, detected signals and attributed headlines only. Nothing on this board is estimated, forecast or inferred; a flag means a layer moved, not why it moved.
Sovereign Observatory
Access for governments, sovereign funds, family offices and research institutions. Eight instruments — Command, Country Dossier, Shock Propagation, Narrative Radar, Inter-Capital comparison, Ports & Chokepoints, the Renewable Energy Atlas and the Sovereign Memo — read one country state and one scenario at once. Every figure traces to a published register, measured data, documented geography or attributed reporting.
- Military capacity (0-100)
- Where the country sits in a published annual ranking of armed-forces strength (personnel, aircraft, armour, naval fleet, logistics), rescaled among Arab states: 100 = strongest in the region, 0 = weakest. Use it to gauge security weight and defence-market size.
- Media industry base (0-100)
- Documented production infrastructure: film/TV sound stages, media free zones and headquarters of pan-Arab news networks, equally weighted and scaled so the regional leader = 100. Blank means no documented facilities, not zero activity. Use it to choose production, broadcast and partnership locations.
Sovereign Observatory · licensing
Licences for institutions
Briefing pass
$750
one-time · 24 hours
Full terminal for one day — ahead of a board meeting, a visit or a negotiation. No renewal.
Principal
$2,900/mo
billed monthly
One named decision-maker or chief analyst.
- All 18 economies, every screen and mode
- Unlimited scenarios and peer comparisons
- Sovereign memo print / PDF
Council
$8,500/mo
billed monthly
A strategy unit, cabinet office or investment committee.
- Everything in Principal
- 10 named seats
- Quarterly analyst walkthrough of the terminal
Mandate
$18,000/mo
billed monthly
Ministries, sovereign funds, multilaterals and major institutions.
- Everything in Council
- 25 named seats
- Monthly confidential advisory session
- Bespoke scoping for national licences
Institutional Partner and Sovereign Enterprise members already hold Sovereign Observatory access. Prices in US dollars; taxes may apply at checkout.