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Magellan Strait

Running normally

Conditions

Transits a day
5.7
Last 7 published days
Normal
5
a day, when nothing is wrong
Share of normal
114%
Jun 9Normal 5Sep 6
Daily transits through Magellan Strait
DateTransits
2026-06-095
2026-06-106
2026-06-113
2026-06-124
2026-06-136
2026-06-144
2026-06-155
2026-06-168
2026-06-178
2026-06-183
2026-06-197
2026-06-202
2026-06-216
2026-06-221
2026-06-234
2026-06-247
2026-06-253
2026-06-266
2026-06-275
2026-06-286
2026-06-293
2026-06-304
2026-07-018
2026-07-027
2026-07-034
2026-07-046
2026-07-056
2026-07-065
2026-07-077
2026-07-089
2026-07-096
2026-07-106
2026-07-115
2026-07-122
2026-07-132
2026-07-149
2026-07-155
2026-07-167
2026-07-175
2026-07-184
2026-07-196
2026-07-204
2026-07-213
2026-07-223
2026-07-234
2026-07-246
2026-07-253
2026-07-266
2026-07-273
2026-07-285
2026-07-295
2026-07-305
2026-07-316
2026-08-014
2026-08-027
2026-08-0310
2026-08-045
2026-08-057
2026-08-063
2026-08-076
2026-08-082
2026-08-093
2026-08-106
2026-08-113
2026-08-126
2026-08-138
2026-08-149
2026-08-155
2026-08-167
2026-08-175
2026-08-1810
2026-08-196
2026-08-206
2026-08-215
2026-08-228
2026-08-237
2026-08-241
2026-08-255
2026-08-264
2026-08-277
2026-08-289
2026-08-293
2026-08-303
2026-08-313
2026-09-018
2026-09-023
2026-09-037
2026-09-0411
2026-09-053
2026-09-065

Daily transits from 2026-06-09 to 2026-09-06, running between 1 and 11 a day.

The most recent published day, Sep 6, 2026, counted 5 transits. Across the 90 days on record the count has run between 1 and 11 a day. Traffic over the last 7 days is +25% 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 Magellan Strait

The passage

Narrowest clear water
2.0km
Widest lane that fits between the shores
Shore to shore
6.2km
Across the passage, where transits are counted
Corridor
29km
Length of the lane this page describes
Counted at
52°38′S 69°36′W

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.