Chokepoint traffic: week 44 of 2025

Monday Oct 27, 2025 to Sunday Nov 2, 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
Strait of Magellan	17	2.4	8.5	29%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	245	35	80.5	43%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	11	1.6	3	52%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	62	8.9	16	55%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	258	36.9	49	75%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	199	28.4	31	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	613	87.6	94	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,614	230.6	245.5	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,482	211.7	219.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	251	35.9	37	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	460	65.7	67.5	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	273	39	40	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	226	32.3	33	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	632	90.3	92	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,670	238.6	240	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	689	98.4	98	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	341	48.7	48	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,245	177.9	173.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	972	138.9	134.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	363	51.9	49.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	81	11.6	11	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,291	184.4	173.5	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	364	52	48	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	171	24.4	21.5	114%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	67	9.6	8	120%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	97	13.9	10.5	132%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	84	12	9	133%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets