Chokepoint traffic: week 5 of 2026

Monday Jan 26, 2026 to Sunday Feb 1, 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	19	2.7	8	34%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	249	35.6	47	76%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	843	120.4	137	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	68	9.7	11	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	569	81.3	92	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	64	9.1	10	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,089	155.6	170	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	302	43.1	47	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	87	12.4	13	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	320	45.7	47	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,361	194.4	198.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	262	37.4	38	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	242	34.6	35	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	105	15	15	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,238	176.9	174.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	245	35	34.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,713	244.7	241	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	420	60	58.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	632	90.3	87	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,636	233.7	225	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	299	42.7	41	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	482	68.9	65	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	67	9.6	9	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	269	38.4	35	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	322	46	35.5	130%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets