{"id":124777,"date":"2021-08-09T18:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=124777"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:38:56","slug":"sea-lanes-of-communication-sloc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sea-lanes-of-communication-sloc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea\u00a0Lanes of\u00a0Communication\u00a0(SLOC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About SLOC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A SLOC is a <strong>route taken by a ship to transit from point A to B<\/strong>. In maritime terms, it should be short, economical and safe for transporting cargo<\/li>\n<li>The SLOCs are also referred to as the <strong>arteries of a region&#8217;s economy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>During times of peace, the SLOCs serve as commercial trade routes, but during war, these routes are considered<strong> strategic paths.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The SLOCs vary in length depending on the geography in terms of landmass, choke points , reefs, foul ground and location of ports and harbours.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian Ocean is home to important SLOCs and maritime choke points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats to the SLOCs<\/strong>: Threats to the SLOCs can be identified as arising from several directions : piracy, drug trafficking, gun running, human smuggling, pollution, accidents, mines, closure of choke points, inter-state conflicts and territorial disputes. None is independent of the other and failure in one often leads to failure in others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About SLOC A SLOC is a route taken by a ship to transit from point A to B. In maritime terms, it should be short, economical and safe for transporting cargo The SLOCs are also referred to as the arteries of a region&#8217;s economy During times of peace, the SLOCs serve as commercial trade routes,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sea-lanes-of-communication-sloc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sea\u00a0Lanes of\u00a0Communication\u00a0(SLOC)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-124777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}