Chokepoint traffic: week 51 of 2025

Monday Dec 15, 2025 to Sunday Dec 21, 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	1	0.1	4	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	25	3.6	8	45%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	340	48.6	68.5	71%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	57	8.1	11	74%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	53	7.6	9	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	116	16.6	19	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	94	13.4	15	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	413	59	65.5	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	552	78.9	87	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	58	8.3	9	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	227	32.4	35	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	660	94.3	100	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	330	47.1	49	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	289	41.3	42.5	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,182	168.9	172	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	331	47.3	48	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	77	11	11	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,675	239.3	238.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,507	215.3	211.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	970	138.6	136	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,619	231.3	225.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,260	180	173.5	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	234	33.4	32	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	306	43.7	41.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	268	38.3	36	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	352	50.3	47	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	275	39.3	31.5	125%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets