Chokepoint traffic: week 44 of 2026

Monday Oct 26, 2026 to Sunday Nov 1, 2026 (UTC)

8 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	31	4.4	112.5	4%	Nearly stopped	Weekly count markets
Bosporus Strait	311	44.4	105	42%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Tsugaru Strait	210	30	51	59%	Sharply reduced	Weekly count markets
Bering Strait	13	1.9	3	62%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Ombai Strait	48	6.9	9	76%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Strait of Magellan	28	4	5	80%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Makassar Strait	307	43.9	54	81%	Below normal	Weekly count markets
Lombok Strait	233	33.3	37.5	89%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Yucatan Channel	324	46.3	50.5	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mindoro Strait	334	47.7	52	92%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Sunda Strait	208	29.7	32	93%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Malacca	1,419	202.7	216	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Oresund Strait	271	38.7	41	94%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bohai Strait	1,061	151.6	157.5	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Mona Passage	81	11.6	12	96%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Panama Canal	224	32	33	97%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Bab-el-Mandeb	191	27.3	27	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Korea Strait	1,508	215.4	213	101%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Gibraltar	921	131.6	129	102%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Cape of Good Hope	644	92	88.5	104%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Suez Canal	301	43	41	105%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Windward Passage	111	15.9	15	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Taiwan Strait	1,729	247	232.5	106%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Torres Strait	64	9.1	8	114%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Strait of Dover	1,292	184.6	160.5	115%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Luzon Strait	790	112.9	97	116%	Running normally	Weekly count markets
Balabac Strait	112	16	11	145%	Running normally	Weekly count markets