Chokepoint traffic: week 9 of 2026

Monday Feb 23, 2026 to Sunday Mar 1, 2026 (UTC)

2 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	17	2.4	8	30%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,095	156.4	170	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,447	206.7	224.5	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	303	43.3	47	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	573	81.9	87.5	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	237	33.9	35	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	301	43	44	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	260	37.1	38	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,645	235	240	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	62	8.9	9	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,341	191.6	192.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	281	40.1	40	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	252	36	35.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	334	47.7	47	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	244	34.9	34	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	618	88.3	86	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	471	67.3	65	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	1,015	145	138	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	81	11.6	11	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	99	14.1	13	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	69	9.9	9	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	116	16.6	15	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	74	10.6	9.5	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,342	191.7	172	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	339	48.4	40	121%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	543	77.6	61	127%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets