Chokepoint traffic: week 36 of 2026

Monday Aug 31, 2026 to Sunday Sep 6, 2026 (UTC)

5 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	22	3.1	112.5	3%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	21	3	4	75%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	372	53.1	66.5	80%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	178	25.4	31	82%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	579	82.7	95	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	550	78.6	90	87%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	250	35.7	40	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	69	9.9	11	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	63	9	10	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	206	29.4	32	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,397	199.6	214.5	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	343	49	52.5	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,442	206	219.5	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	53	7.6	8	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,081	154.4	161	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	244	34.9	35.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	107	15.3	15.5	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,709	244.1	245	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	77	11	11	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	364	52	52	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	375	53.6	53	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	375	53.6	53	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,114	159.1	157	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	291	41.6	41	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	975	139.3	129	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	40	5.7	5	114%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	234	33.4	Not enough history for a normal			Weekly count markets