Chokepoint traffic: week 16 of 2026

Monday Apr 13, 2026 to Sunday Apr 19, 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 Hormuz	52	7.4	112.5	7%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	22	3.1	6	52%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	62	8.9	13	68%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	53	7.6	9	84%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	414	59.1	65	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	253	36.1	39	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	284	40.6	43	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	67	9.6	10	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,207	172.4	180	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	230	32.9	34	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,524	217.7	224	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	290	41.4	42	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	609	87	88	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	932	133.1	134.5	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,407	201	201	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	246	35.1	35	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,631	233	230.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,220	174.3	170	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	65	9.3	9	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	116	16.6	16	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	668	95.4	90.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	252	36	34	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	82	11.7	11	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	272	38.9	36	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	393	56.1	48.5	116%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	422	60.3	51	118%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets