Chokepoint traffic: week 20 of 2026

Monday May 11, 2026 to Sunday May 17, 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	28	4	112.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Kerch Strait	58	8.3	24.5	34%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	74	10.6	12	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,188	169.7	178.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	60	8.6	9	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	222	31.7	33	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	256	36.6	38	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	250	35.7	37	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	903	129	133.5	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,145	163.6	168	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	294	42	43	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,487	212.4	217	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	302	43.1	43	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	627	89.6	89	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	71	10.1	10	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,472	210.3	204	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	377	53.9	52	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	254	36.3	34.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,729	247	234	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	373	53.3	49	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	27	3.9	3.5	110%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	71	10.1	9	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	721	103	91	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	136	19.4	16	121%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	584	83.4	66.5	125%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	397	56.7	34	167%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	Not fully published. Latest day: Nov 6, 2026					Weekly count markets