Chokepoint traffic: week 40 of 2025

Monday Sep 29, 2025 to Sunday Oct 5, 2025 (UTC)

5 of 27 chokepoints with a full week were below normal. We track 28 in total.

Daily counts are published a few days late. Latest published day: Nov 8, 2026, 5 days ago.

Normal is the median daily count over the 84 published days to the week’s last day. If a disruption has pulled that median below half of the route’s usual traffic, normal is the highest median of any 14 days in a row in the 730 days to that day.

Ships through each chokepoint during the week.
Chokepoint	Ships this week	Per day	Normal per day	% of normal	Status	Markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	236	33.7	83	41%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	28	4	8.5	47%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	288	41.1	79.5	52%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	46	6.6	9	73%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	282	40.3	48	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	338	48.3	52	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	111	15.9	17	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,449	207	221	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,153	164.7	175	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,678	239.7	253	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,144	163.4	170.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	226	32.3	33.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,634	233.4	238	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	329	47	47.5	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	950	135.7	136	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	352	50.3	49	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	708	101.1	96	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	259	37	35	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	708	101.1	95.5	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	473	67.6	63.5	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	77	11	10	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	256	36.6	33	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	779	111.3	96	116%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	75	10.7	9	119%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	25	3.6	3	119%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	88	12.6	10.5	120%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	161	23	19	121%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets