The Strait of Hormuz as a supply chain resilience stress test: maritime chokepoints, energy logistics, and sustainability policy

Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most strategically significant maritime chokepoints, carrying a substantial share of global oil and liquefied natural gas trade. This study uses a case-informed conceptual policy analysis and thematic review of 22 peer-reviewed articles to examine how chokepoint disruption transmits risk across global supply chains. The coding process produced 268 coded instances; five dominant categories accounted for 53.7% of the total and concerned structural chokepoint dependence, the efficiency-resilience tradeoff, energy-cost transmission, sustainability and social externalities, and multi-actor governance. The 2026 Hormuz disruption is used as a bounded contemporary case, updated through August 28, 2026, to connect the literature-derived themes with observed logistics and energy-market effects. The study develops a corridor-level resilience framework in which chokepoint exposure produces operational consequences and cascading effects that are moderated by firm, market, and government responses. The contribution is to position corridor resilience as a distinct complement to firm- and network-level supply chain resilience.