Chokepoint traffic: week 1 of 2026

Monday Dec 29, 2025 to Sunday Jan 4, 2026 (UTC)

8 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	0	0	4	0%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	27	3.9	8	48%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	57	8.1	15	54%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	441	63	97	65%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	204	29.1	40	73%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	254	36.3	47	77%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	246	35.1	42.5	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,233	176.1	211	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	66	9.4	11	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,086	155.1	172	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	410	58.6	64	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	233	33.3	36	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	327	46.7	48	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	330	47.1	48	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	951	135.9	137.5	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,565	223.6	221	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,692	241.7	238.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	607	86.7	85	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,250	178.6	175	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	101	14.4	14	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	66	9.4	9	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	484	69.1	64.5	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	271	38.7	36	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	247	35.3	32	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	255	36.4	32.5	112%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	88	12.6	11	114%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets