Chokepoint traffic: week 37 of 2026

Monday Sep 7, 2026 to Sunday Sep 13, 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	0	0	24.5	0%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	37	5.3	112.5	5%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	366	52.3	65	80%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	191	27.3	31	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	68	9.7	11	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	62	8.9	10	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	102	14.6	16	91%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	265	37.9	41	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,606	229.4	241.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,070	152.9	160.5	95%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	365	52.1	53	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	375	53.6	54	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	223	31.9	32	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	634	90.6	89.5	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,571	224.4	219.5	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	934	133.4	129	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	378	54	52	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	382	54.6	52	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	295	42.1	40	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	59	8.4	8	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,171	167.3	158	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	83	11.9	11	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,630	232.9	216	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	728	104	95	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	31	4.4	4	111%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	281	40.1	36	112%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	48	6.9	5	137%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	238	34	Not enough history for a normal			Weekly count markets