Chokepoint traffic: week 50 of 2025

Monday Dec 8, 2025 to Sunday Dec 14, 2025 (UTC)

15 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	4	0.6	4	14%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	31	4.4	19	23%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	21	3	8	38%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	177	25.3	66.5	38%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	31	4.4	9	49%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	122	17.4	31	56%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	193	27.6	48	57%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	177	25.3	34.5	73%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	57	8.1	11	74%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	78	11.1	15	74%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	905	129.3	172.5	75%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	265	37.9	49	77%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	379	54.1	70	77%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	232	33.1	42	79%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,260	180	227.5	79%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	215	30.7	35	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,359	194.1	213.5	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	676	96.6	100	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	291	41.6	43	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	923	131.9	136	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	75	10.7	11	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	607	86.7	87	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,711	244.4	238.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	339	48.4	47	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	237	33.9	32	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,343	191.9	174.5	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets