Chokepoint traffic: week 18 of 2026

Monday Apr 27, 2026 to Sunday May 3, 2026 (UTC)

3 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	33	4.7	112.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	27	3.9	24.5	16%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	302	43.1	49	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	549	78.4	88.5	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	245	35	39	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,063	151.9	168	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,169	167	179.5	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	224	32	34	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	67	9.6	10	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,486	212.3	220.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	931	133	135.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	634	90.6	91	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,431	204.4	201.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	259	37	35	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	319	45.6	43	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,731	247.3	231.5	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	90	12.9	12	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	124	17.7	16.5	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	399	57	52	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	286	40.9	36	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	73	10.4	9	116%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	553	79	65	122%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	366	52.3	43	122%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	299	42.7	33.5	128%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	30	4.3	3	143%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets