Chokepoint traffic: week 47 of 2025

Monday Nov 17, 2025 to Sunday Nov 23, 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
Bering Strait	6	0.9	4	21%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	24	3.4	8.5	40%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	285	40.7	76.5	53%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	424	60.6	80.5	75%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	269	38.4	46.5	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,482	211.7	237.5	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,405	200.7	222	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	280	40	42.5	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	664	94.9	100	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	248	35.4	37	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,203	171.9	179	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	75	10.7	11	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	461	65.9	67.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	632	90.3	90.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,680	240	240	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	329	47	47	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	343	49	49	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	348	49.7	48	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	1,001	143	136.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,304	186.3	176	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	233	33.3	31	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	241	34.4	32	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	84	12	11	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	123	17.6	16	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	164	23.4	21	112%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	73	10.4	9	116%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets