Chokepoint traffic: week 11 of 2026

Monday Mar 9, 2026 to Sunday Mar 15, 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 Hormuz	15	2.1	60.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	26	3.7	8	46%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	194	27.7	34	82%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	56	8	9	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	424	60.6	67	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	64	9.1	10	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,521	217.3	236.5	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	279	39.9	43	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	66	9.4	10	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	231	33	35	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	319	45.6	47	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	265	37.9	39	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	254	36.3	36	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,205	172.1	169.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	609	87	85	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	1,000	142.9	138.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,245	177.9	172	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	276	39.4	38	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,645	235	225.5	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	647	92.4	87.5	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	356	50.9	48	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,451	207.3	193	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	353	50.4	40.5	125%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	96	13.7	11	125%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	133	19	15	127%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	132	18.9	13	145%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets