Chokepoint traffic: week 33 of 2026

Monday Aug 10, 2026 to Sunday Aug 16, 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
Kerch Strait	2	0.3	24.5	1%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	31	4.4	112.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	385	55	75.5	73%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	332	47.4	54.5	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	995	142.1	162	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	206	29.4	33	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	332	47.4	52	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,386	198	217	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	78	11.1	12	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	213	30.4	32	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	367	52.4	55	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	248	35.4	37	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	27	3.9	4	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,081	154.4	160	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	359	51.3	53	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,500	214.3	221	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	75	10.7	11	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	111	15.9	16	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	916	130.9	131.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	286	40.9	41	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	643	91.9	91	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	71	10.1	10	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	9	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	292	41.7	40	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,894	270.6	248	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	728	104	93.5	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	44	6.3	5	126%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	237	33.9	Not enough history for a normal			Weekly count markets