Chokepoint traffic: week 8 of 2026

Monday Feb 16, 2026 to Sunday Feb 22, 2026 (UTC)

5 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	20	2.9	8	36%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	87	12.4	24.5	51%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	452	64.6	88	73%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,009	144.1	171	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,432	204.6	230	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,287	183.9	193	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,611	230.1	240	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	304	43.4	45	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	248	35.4	36	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	282	40.3	40	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	332	47.4	47	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	255	36.4	36	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	75	10.7	10.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	268	38.3	37.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	68	9.7	9.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	469	67	65.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	337	48.1	47	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	73	10.4	10	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,246	178	167	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	1,031	147.3	138	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	300	42.9	40	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	671	95.9	85	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	113	16.1	14	115%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	283	40.4	34	119%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	660	94.3	60	157%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets