Chokepoint traffic: week 2 of 2026

Monday Jan 5, 2026 to Sunday Jan 11, 2026 (UTC)

7 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
Tsugaru Strait	213	30.4	39.5	77%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	62	8.9	11	81%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	84	12	14.5	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,210	172.9	207	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	53	7.6	9	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	822	117.4	137	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	628	89.7	97	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	266	38	41	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,147	163.9	175	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,130	161.4	172	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	237	33.9	35.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	75	10.7	11	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	323	46.1	47	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	335	47.9	48	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,546	220.9	221	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	451	64.4	64	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	607	86.7	86	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	457	65.3	64.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,695	242.1	238.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	344	49.1	48	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	69	9.9	9	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	108	15.4	14	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	278	39.7	36	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	260	37.1	32	116%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	277	39.6	33	120%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets