Chokepoint monitor

Panama Canal

Running normallySep 6, 2026

Conditions

Transits a day

29.6

Last 7 published days

Normal

a day, when nothing is wrong

Share of normal

87%

Jul 6Normal 34Sep 6

Daily transits through Panama Canal
Date	Transits
2026-07-06	35
2026-07-07	33
2026-07-08	35
2026-07-09	34
2026-07-10	34
2026-07-11	35
2026-07-12	34
2026-07-13	34
2026-07-14	34
2026-07-15	34
2026-07-16	34
2026-07-17	36
2026-07-18	35
2026-07-19	33
2026-07-20	35
2026-07-21	36
2026-07-22	25
2026-07-23	35
2026-07-24	32
2026-07-25	33
2026-07-26	33
2026-07-27	33
2026-07-28	33
2026-07-29	32
2026-07-30	34
2026-07-31	34
2026-08-01	37
2026-08-02	32
2026-08-03	33
2026-08-04	33
2026-08-05	35
2026-08-06	34
2026-08-07	35
2026-08-08	36
2026-08-09	34
2026-08-10	35
2026-08-11	34
2026-08-12	34
2026-08-13	33
2026-08-14	34
2026-08-15	34
2026-08-16	33
2026-08-17	31
2026-08-18	33
2026-08-19	34
2026-08-20	30
2026-08-21	31
2026-08-22	29
2026-08-23	32
2026-08-24	31
2026-08-25	26
2026-08-26	35
2026-08-27	34
2026-08-28	35
2026-08-29	33
2026-08-30	34
2026-08-31	33
2026-09-01	33
2026-09-02	33
2026-09-03	32
2026-09-04	30
2026-09-05	32
2026-09-06	14

The most recent published day, Sep 6, 2026, counted 14 transits. Across the 63 days on record the count has run between 14 and 37 a day. Traffic over the last 7 days is -9% 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.

Will the published weekly count of oceangoing transits of the Panama Canal be at least 209 in the week of 7 September – 13 September?
Closes Sep 13, 2026, 11:59 PMLast moved Sep 13, 2026, 4:51 PM
Chance
50%
Yes

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.

The passage

Narrowest clear water: 0.2km; Widest lane that fits between the shores
Corridor: 76km; Length of the lane this page describes
Counted at: 9°07′N 79°46′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.