Chokepoint traffic: week 3 of 2026

Monday Jan 12, 2026 to Sunday Jan 18, 2026 (UTC)

3 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	23	3.3	8	41%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	77	11	14	79%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	67	9.6	11	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	373	53.3	61	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	586	83.7	95.5	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	58	8.3	9	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	232	33.1	35.5	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,181	168.7	177	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,391	198.7	205.5	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,178	168.3	172	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	949	135.6	138	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	279	39.9	40.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	98	14	14	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,720	245.7	239	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	349	49.9	48	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	80	11.4	11	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	627	89.6	85	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	273	39	37	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	351	50.1	47	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	255	36.4	33.5	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,731	247.3	225	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	281	40.1	36.5	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	70	10	9	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	380	54.3	48	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	508	72.6	64	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	295	42.1	33.5	126%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets