Chokepoint traffic: week 31 of 2026

Monday Jul 27, 2026 to Sunday Aug 2, 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
Kerch Strait	6	0.9	24.5	3%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	28	4	112.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	11	1.6	4	39%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	456	65.1	81	80%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	69	9.9	11.5	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	341	48.7	56.5	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	210	30	34.5	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	58	8.3	9.5	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	245	35	40	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	230	32.9	37	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	56	8	9	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	358	51.1	55	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	619	88.4	94.5	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	106	15.1	16	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,103	157.6	162	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	906	129.4	132	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	365	52.1	53	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,150	164.3	165.5	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	35	5	5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,737	248.1	246	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,536	219.4	217.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	229	32.7	32	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,582	226	219.5	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	377	53.9	52	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	290	41.4	40	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	748	106.9	96	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	86	12.3	11	112%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	235	33.6	Not enough history for a normal			Weekly count markets