Rep. Luria: Suez Canal Blockage Shows Need for Navy Focus on Maritime Choke Points Sailors watch from the flight deck as the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Suez Canal, April 2, 2021. (Aimee Ford/U.S. Navy) 3 Apr 2021 Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) | By Dave Ress As Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Norfolk, watched the struggle to refloat a giant container ship in the Suez canal — a waterway she transited a half-dozen times in her Navy career — she kept thinking about the cold of the Arctic and the coral lagoons of the South China Sea. Both have the potential to be the same kind of choke points that could become multibillion-dollar problems for the global economy.