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Balabac Strait

Running normally

Conditions

Transits a day
9.9
Last 7 published days
Normal
11
a day, when nothing is wrong
Share of normal
90%
Jun 9Normal 11Sep 6
Daily transits through Balabac Strait
DateTransits
2026-06-0923
2026-06-1015
2026-06-1110
2026-06-128
2026-06-1314
2026-06-1415
2026-06-157
2026-06-1617
2026-06-176
2026-06-1817
2026-06-198
2026-06-209
2026-06-2112
2026-06-224
2026-06-2310
2026-06-2413
2026-06-2511
2026-06-2617
2026-06-2713
2026-06-2810
2026-06-2913
2026-06-304
2026-07-0111
2026-07-0213
2026-07-0311
2026-07-0412
2026-07-0511
2026-07-0615
2026-07-0715
2026-07-087
2026-07-098
2026-07-1013
2026-07-1111
2026-07-1218
2026-07-1316
2026-07-1414
2026-07-1514
2026-07-1610
2026-07-1718
2026-07-1817
2026-07-1913
2026-07-2014
2026-07-2114
2026-07-228
2026-07-2310
2026-07-246
2026-07-2516
2026-07-2611
2026-07-2717
2026-07-2810
2026-07-2911
2026-07-306
2026-07-3110
2026-08-017
2026-08-028
2026-08-0314
2026-08-0411
2026-08-057
2026-08-0618
2026-08-0716
2026-08-0818
2026-08-097
2026-08-1014
2026-08-1110
2026-08-1211
2026-08-1313
2026-08-1410
2026-08-1513
2026-08-167
2026-08-1713
2026-08-1814
2026-08-1912
2026-08-204
2026-08-2114
2026-08-2215
2026-08-239
2026-08-2411
2026-08-2512
2026-08-267
2026-08-2712
2026-08-2817
2026-08-2912
2026-08-3010
2026-08-319
2026-09-018
2026-09-0210
2026-09-0317
2026-09-048
2026-09-0512
2026-09-065

Daily transits from 2026-06-09 to 2026-09-06, running between 4 and 23 a day.

The most recent published day, Sep 6, 2026, counted 5 transits. Across the 90 days on record the count has run between 4 and 23 a day. Traffic over the last 7 days is -15% against the 7 days before.

Contracts on this passage

Everything above counts what already happened. These are the only figures on this page about what happens next, and nobody wrote them — the market did. Each is the price of a contract on this passage's published weekly transit count, and it moves while the market is open.

A price is what people here are paying to take that side. It is not a forecast and not an official figure. The count for a week is published a few days after the week ends, so these markets settle after their window closes.

Orbital view of the Balabac Strait

The passage

Narrowest clear water
22km
Widest lane that fits between the shores
Corridor
66km
Length of the lane this page describes
Counted at
7°25′N 117°07′E

These distances are worked out from the shape of the passage itself, not quoted from a reference. The clear-water figure is the widest lane that fits between the shores along the whole corridor. That comes out narrower than the headland-to-headland width an atlas prints.