Chokepoint traffic: week 4 of 2026

Monday Jan 19, 2026 to Sunday Jan 25, 2026 (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	0	0	4	0%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	26	3.7	8	46%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	207	29.6	35.5	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	804	114.9	137.5	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	51	7.3	8.5	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,263	180.4	204	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	63	9	10	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	57	8.1	9	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	607	86.7	94	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,129	161.3	172	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	269	38.4	40.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	394	56.3	59	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	239	34.1	35	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	323	46.1	47	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	235	33.6	34	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	448	64	64.5	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,240	177.1	177	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	334	47.7	47.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	602	86	85	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,601	228.7	225	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	108	15.4	15	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,744	249.1	240.5	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	275	39.3	37.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	352	50.3	47.5	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	86	12.3	11	112%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	270	38.6	34.5	112%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	103	14.7	13	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets