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Torres Strait

Running normally

Conditions

Transits a day
7.6
Last 7 published days
Normal
8
a day, when nothing is wrong
Share of normal
95%
Jun 9Normal 8Sep 6
Daily transits through Torres Strait
DateTransits
2026-06-098
2026-06-1012
2026-06-1111
2026-06-1212
2026-06-1312
2026-06-147
2026-06-159
2026-06-1615
2026-06-1713
2026-06-189
2026-06-197
2026-06-2013
2026-06-218
2026-06-229
2026-06-239
2026-06-249
2026-06-2512
2026-06-267
2026-06-279
2026-06-285
2026-06-299
2026-06-3011
2026-07-0113
2026-07-028
2026-07-0310
2026-07-048
2026-07-054
2026-07-0611
2026-07-076
2026-07-088
2026-07-0910
2026-07-106
2026-07-1114
2026-07-125
2026-07-138
2026-07-1410
2026-07-1516
2026-07-164
2026-07-176
2026-07-1810
2026-07-195
2026-07-208
2026-07-216
2026-07-228
2026-07-238
2026-07-249
2026-07-2512
2026-07-269
2026-07-276
2026-07-287
2026-07-296
2026-07-3012
2026-07-317
2026-08-018
2026-08-0210
2026-08-0310
2026-08-048
2026-08-058
2026-08-064
2026-08-0712
2026-08-084
2026-08-098
2026-08-1010
2026-08-118
2026-08-129
2026-08-1310
2026-08-146
2026-08-1513
2026-08-168
2026-08-177
2026-08-186
2026-08-197
2026-08-2010
2026-08-213
2026-08-229
2026-08-2310
2026-08-246
2026-08-259
2026-08-269
2026-08-279
2026-08-286
2026-08-294
2026-08-307
2026-08-315
2026-09-017
2026-09-026
2026-09-037
2026-09-0411
2026-09-057
2026-09-0610

Daily transits from 2026-06-09 to 2026-09-06, running between 3 and 16 a day.

The most recent published day, Sep 6, 2026, counted 10 transits. Across the 90 days on record the count has run between 3 and 16 a day. Traffic over the last 7 days is +6% 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 Torres Strait

The passage

Narrowest clear water
20km
Widest lane that fits between the shores
Corridor
58km
Length of the lane this page describes
Counted at
9°52′S 142°15′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.