Guy Yeomans Profile picture
Feb 19, 2021 19 tweets 22 min read Read on X
I've started combining locations highlighted in my #connectivity research with in-situ listening via #radiogarden. Right now, the port of Constanta, Romania on the #BlackSea, while scanning a modernisation programme with "civilian-military dual-use of transport infrastructure" 1/ Image
This morning, the port of #Alexandroupoli, Greece on the #ThracianSea with strategically important position for regional #energyflows. Scanning #flowsecurity development & mooted sale of majority stake of port to US commercial interests... / #connectivity & #radiogarden 2/ Image
Nothing listed for the port of #Sabetta, Russia so Novy Urengoy closest station (375 miles away): Scanning the voyage of Christophe de Margerie, expanding navigation window in the eastern sector of Russian #Arctic, confirming year-round safe navigation... #psychoconnectivity 3/ Image
Listening to religious service from #Piraes on Saronic Gulf, #AegeanSea. Chosen as largest home-port while scanning Greece's strategic drive for central role in emergent trans-Mediterranean connectivity (East Africa-to-Europe & Middle East-to-Europe)... #psychoconnectivity 4/ Image
Nothing listed for #AlFaw, Iraq on the #PersianGulf, so listening to #Basrah (70 miles away): scanning #maritimesecurity dynamics of prospective enhanced connectivity resulting from South Korean port infrastructure development plan... #psychoconnectivity 5/ Image
Listening to a station, pre-dawn, in #Fortaleza, Brazil on the #AtlanticOcean: scanning 'connectivity chokepoints'. If Fortaleza was attacked it "would interrupt much of the data flowing across the Western hemisphere..." #flowsecurity #psychoconnectivity 6/ Image
Nothing listed for Ramgarh, Bangladesh so #Dhaka is closest station (309 miles away): scanning a new bridge that reduces the distance from North-eastern India to its nearest international sea port from 1600 km to less than 100 km. A “trading lifeline”... #psychoconnectivity 7/ Image
Listening to a morning news report from #Sevastopol: scanning Russian military logistics & power projection capabilities, "whoever controls Sevastopol controls Crimea. And who controls Crimea controls the whole #BlackSea basin..." #strategicmaritimedomains #psychoconnectivity 8/ Image
'Radio Energy' ebulliently introduces the morning in #Varna, Bulgaria: scanning #BlackSea, Southern Caucasus & Central Asian connectivity, linked in part by the multi-modal 'Corridor 8' onto the Albanian coast of the #AdriaticSea... #psychoconnectivity 9/ Image
Early Saturday evening easy-listening in #Darwin, Australia on the #TimorSea. Scanning multiple connectivity (data centre), development (port) & resilience (fuel supply) project ideas seeking to position Northern Territory as the ‘Crossroads of the Quad’.. #psychoconnectivity 10/ Image
Laid-back Sunday afternoon sounds from #Tema, Ghana on the Bight of Benin, #AtlanticOcean: scanning a French business monopoly of West African ports & infrastructure, charged with bribery, corruption & political, contract & market manipulation claims... #psychoconnectivity 11/ Image
#Esenler is the closest station listed to the Küçükçekmece-Sazlıdere-Durusu corridor, the land between the #BlackSea & #MarmaraSea, #Turkey: scanning the latest developments in a key strategic #maritime infrastructure project first mooted back in 2011... #psychoconnectivity 12/ Image
The 'Good Morning' station greets me in #Genoa, Italy on the #LigurianSea: scanning a new 'site of #flows', a strategic interconnection point for the 2Africa #underseacable. "Now, the ancient trading city will be host to a new kind of exchange: data"... #psychoconnectivity 13/ Image
Listening to resonant early afternoon tilawah from #Alexandria, Egypt: scanning a proposed new rail line that would connect - without stops - to #Khartoum, Sudan, over 900km away. A further opening of longer-term #WhiteNile connectivity... #psychoconnectivity 14/ Image
Morning in #Pemba, capital of #CaboDelgado province, at the Northern entrance to the #MozambiqueChannel: scanning the 'forgotten chokepoint', a key transit linkage for the IOR (30% of global tanker traffic) & for future development of the #RovumaBasin... #psychoconnectivity 15/ Image
Early afternoon phone-in show from Kilifi is the closest to #Lamu, #Kenya: scanning new deep-water port, part of an ambitious transport corridor linking Kenya, South Sudan & Ethiopia. Connecting landlocked East African economies to global trade routes... #psychoconnectivity 16/ Image
Music from #Almaty is the closest available to #Dostyk, #Kazakhstan, 630 miles away near to the pivotal Alashankou border crossing with China. Scanning a new rail transhipment terminal & dry port project to support traffic growth on the New Silk Road... #psychoconnectivity 17/ Image
Late morning music from #Aden, 160 miles north across the #GulfofAden, is closest to #Berbera, #Somaliland. Scanning the first phase of significant port development which, with planned expansion, will create new strategic trading hub in #HornofAfrica... #psychoconnectivity 18/ Image
Music from #Giza is closest to #Gargoub on #Egypt's north-western #Mediterranean coast. Hoped to hear coverage of today's new naval base inauguration, part of regional plan for economic, tourist & energy hub development & future population redistribution.. #psychoconnectivity 19/ Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Guy Yeomans

Guy Yeomans Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(