Chokepoint traffic: week 52 of 2025

Monday Dec 22, 2025 to Sunday Dec 28, 2025 (UTC)

4 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	28	4	8	50%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	80	11.4	16.5	69%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	515	73.6	97.5	75%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	269	38.4	42.5	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	93	13.3	14.5	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	260	37.1	40.5	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	412	58.9	64	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	71	10.1	11	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	420	60	65	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	59	8.4	9	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	321	45.9	48	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,163	166.1	173.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	242	34.6	36	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,440	205.7	213.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	75	10.7	11	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	62	8.9	9	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	593	84.7	86	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,188	169.7	172	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	331	47.3	47.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,697	242.4	238.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,587	226.7	221.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	264	37.7	36	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	236	33.7	32	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	356	50.9	48	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	1,028	146.9	137	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	252	36	32	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets