Chokepoint traffic: week 43 of 2026

Monday Oct 19, 2026 to Sunday Oct 25, 2026 (UTC)

7 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	1	0.1	24.5	1%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Strait of Hormuz	23	3.3	112.5	3%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	14	2	4	50%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	436	62.3	93	67%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	51	7.3	10	73%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	901	128.7	160	80%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,330	190	231.5	82%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	30	4.3	5	86%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	326	46.6	53	88%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	815	116.4	129	90%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,389	198.4	213	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	216	30.9	32	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	376	53.7	55.5	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	610	87.1	87.5	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	56	8	8	100%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	289	41.3	41	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	106	15.1	15	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,148	164	158	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	300	42.9	41	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,596	228	218	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	242	34.6	33	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	383	54.7	52	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	202	28.9	27	107%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	410	58.6	54	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	281	40.1	37	108%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	389	55.6	51	109%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	87	12.4	11	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	95	13.6	12	113%	Running normally	Weekly count markets