The Strait of Malacca is a shipping lane sandwiched between the Malaysian Peninsula and Sumatra Island in Indonesia. It is about 805 km or 500 miles long with a width of 65 km or 40 miles on the south side and the further north it gets, the wider it is around 250 km or 155 miles. 2003, the Strait of Malacca was navigable every day with transport goods totaling more than ten million barrels whic…