Chokepoint traffic: week 17 of 2026

Monday Apr 20, 2026 to Sunday Apr 26, 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	21	3	112.5	3%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	2	0.3	4	7%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	63	9	13	69%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	30	4.3	6	71%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	414	59.1	64	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	104	14.9	16	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	287	41	43	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	288	41.1	43	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,488	212.6	222	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,231	175.9	180	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	244	34.9	35	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	945	135	135.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	235	33.6	33.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,426	203.7	201	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	348	49.7	49	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,634	233.4	230	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	65	9.3	9	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,220	174.3	168.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	261	37.3	36	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	385	55	52	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	252	36	34	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	661	94.4	89	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	291	41.6	39	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	688	98.3	90	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	92	13.1	12	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	79	11.3	10	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets