Chokepoint traffic: week 42 of 2025

Monday Oct 13, 2025 to Sunday Oct 19, 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	263	37.6	80.5	47%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	32	4.6	8.5	54%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	13	1.9	3	62%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	291	41.6	51	82%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	516	73.7	89.5	82%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,523	217.6	249.5	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	610	87.1	96	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	66	9.4	10	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	333	47.6	49.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	222	31.7	33	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	109	15.6	16	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,526	218	222	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,186	169.4	172.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	338	48.3	47.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	974	139.1	136	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,241	177.3	173	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	230	32.9	32	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,715	245	238.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	269	38.4	37	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	469	67	64.5	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	353	50.4	48	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	709	101.3	96	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	306	43.7	40	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	78	11.1	10	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	176	25.1	20	126%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	71	10.1	8	127%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets