Chokepoint traffic: week 42 of 2026

Monday Oct 12, 2026 to Sunday Oct 18, 2026 (UTC)

6 of 28 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	26	3.7	112.5	3%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	54	7.7	10	77%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	30	4.3	5.5	78%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	326	46.6	56.5	82%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	308	44	53	83%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	93	13.3	15	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	22	3.1	3.5	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,371	195.9	213.5	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,033	147.6	159	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	79	11.3	12	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	871	124.4	129.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	185	26.4	27	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,591	227.3	231.5	98%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,506	215.1	217	99%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	600	85.7	86	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	356	50.9	51	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	234	33.4	33	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	57	8.1	8	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	72	10.3	10	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	390	55.7	54	103%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	290	41.4	40	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	235	33.6	32	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	269	38.4	36.5	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	724	103.4	96	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	310	44.3	41	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	396	56.6	52	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,225	175	160.5	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets