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I need to assess whether there's any disruption to trade flows at this chokepoint."},{"title":"Dry bulk shipping capacity analysis","prompt":"Get me the dry bulk vessel transits through the Bosporus for the past 10 days including the aggregate capacity figures — I'm analyzing grain and commodity shipment volumes through that corridor."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON array of daily records for the Bosporus Strait, each containing the date, counts of vessels by type (tanker, dry bulk, container, general cargo, ro-ro), total transits, and combined capacity in DWT, plus metadata including the data source URL, the chokepoint name, and the timestamp of when the data was last checked.","failureModes":["Requested days parameter outside 1–30 range may return an error or default to 7 days","ArcGIS/IMF PortWatch upstream data lag may mean latest date is 1–2 days behind current date","Bosporus only — queries expecting Dardanelles data will return no results for that strait","AIS data gaps can cause undercount of transits on specific days","Service may return empty days array if upstream source is temporarily unavailable"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need recent, structured, daily vessel transit statistics specifically for the Bosporus Strait broken down by ship type and capacity. 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