Chokepoint traffic: week 34 of 2026

Monday Aug 17, 2026 to Sunday Aug 23, 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	1	0.1	24.5	1%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	35	5	112.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	52	7.4	9	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	323	46.1	53.5	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	568	81.1	93	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	228	32.6	36	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	206	29.4	32.5	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,426	203.7	221	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	352	50.3	54	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,043	149	159.5	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	483	69	72.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	863	123.3	129	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,656	236.6	247.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	81	11.6	12	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,457	208.1	215	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	28	4	4	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	641	91.6	91	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	228	32.6	32	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	114	16.3	16	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	294	42	41	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	382	54.6	53	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	386	55.1	53	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,180	168.6	162	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	294	42	40	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	84	12	11	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	78	11.1	10	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	47	6.7	5	134%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	220	31.4	Not enough history for a normal			Weekly count markets