Chokepoint traffic: week 12 of 2026

Monday Mar 16, 2026 to Sunday Mar 22, 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
Strait of Hormuz	10	1.4	58	2%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	1	0.1	4	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	27	3.9	8	48%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	57	8.1	10	81%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,438	205.4	233	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	581	83	87.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	260	37.1	39	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	235	33.6	35	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	454	64.9	67	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	320	45.7	46.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	62	8.9	9	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	951	135.9	137	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	345	49.3	48.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	114	16.3	16	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,225	175	170.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	72	10.3	10	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	644	92	89	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,403	200.4	193.5	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,692	241.7	231	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	264	37.7	36	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	280	40	38	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	319	45.6	43	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	82	11.7	11	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	257	36.7	34	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,403	200.4	175	115%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	111	15.9	13	122%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	367	52.4	42	125%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets