Chokepoint transit monitor
Daily vessel transits through the world's strategic maritime passages: Suez, Panama, Hormuz, Bab-el-Mandeb, Malacca, Cape of Good Hope and more. A disruption at any of these moves freight rates worldwide; watch the trend before it hits the market.
Movement by passage
Each passage against its own prior-month baseline: the one figure comparable across chokepoints.
Of the 19 passages carrying enough daily volume to read a trend, 18 are holding within 10% of their prior month; the only high-volume passage past that line is Bosporus Strait, -12.3%. The sharp swings on the board below sit on lighter-traffic straits, where a handful of transits moves the percentage.
more transits than the prior monthfewerOnly passages above 25/day are charted; lighter-traffic straits stay in the grid below, where a few transits distort the percentage.
As of 11 Oct 2026. Transit data is currently delayed. The source feed has not updated in 5 days.
Transit counts are satellite-AIS-derived daily figures covering 28 strategic chokepoints. Change is the latest 30-day average versus the prior 30 days. Read each chokepoint against its own history: the detection rate differs per passage, so the absolute counts are not comparable across chokepoints, and the most recent 1 to 3 days are provisional (they revise upward as more AIS is processed), which is why we headline the 30-day average rather than the latest day. Scope: commercial cargo and tanker vessels only (the cargo count splits into container, dry-bulk, general-cargo and ro-ro); fishing, naval and other non-commercial craft are not counted. A transit is one crossing of the passage per voyage (a ship counts once as it passes, not entry and exit separately). The northbound / southbound split is derived from each transiting vessel's AIS course (a circular mean of its heading, kept only where the crossings align on a single axis), since the raw daily totals are undirected.
Live AIS presence
Vessels in our live AIS feed within ~50 nm of each strait right now: the real-time complement to the transit estimate above. The Direction column splits the moving vessels by heading, so you can see which way the traffic is flowing, the north/south read the transit totals can't give. Shown only where the corridor has a clean transit axis. A sample from our AIS coverage, not a census.
Ships avoiding Bab el-Mandeb route around the Cape. Price the diversion| Chokepoint | Vessels | Tankers | Bulkers | Boxships | Gas | Moving | Avg speed | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oresund Strait | 82 | 7 | 4 | 1 | · | 39 | 10.4 kn | · |
| Dover Strait | 80 | 8 | 16 | 8 | · | 46 | 11.2 kn | Southwestbound52% Northeastbound48% |
| Gibraltar Strait | 57 | 7 | 14 | 12 | · | 34 | 10.4 kn | Westbound61% Eastbound39% |
| Bosporus Strait | 21 | 8 | 2 | 3 | · | 12 | 8.7 kn | · |
| Makassar Strait | 13 | · | 11 | · | · | 13 | 11.9 kn | Northbound76% Southbound24% |
| Cape of Good Hope | 10 | 1 | 7 | · | · | 10 | 12.0 kn | Eastbound89% Westbound11% |
| Malacca Strait | 10 | 2 | 4 | · | · | 7 | 12.0 kn | Northwestbound88% Southeastbound12% |
| Strait of Hormuz | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | · | 3 | 7.2 kn | · |
| Bohai Strait | 4 | · | 3 | · | · | 4 | 10.1 kn | · |
| Lombok Strait | 4 | · | 4 | · | · | 4 | 9.9 kn | Southwestbound56% Northeastbound44% |
| Panama Canal | 4 | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | 13.7 kn | · |
| Suez Canal | 3 | 1 | · | 2 | · | 0 | · | Southbound84% Northbound16% |
| Sunda Strait | 2 | · | · | 1 | · | 2 | 15.9 kn | · |
| Taiwan Strait | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | · | 2 | 13.6 kn | Southwestbound68% Northeastbound32% |
| Korea Strait | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | 12.0 kn | Southwestbound89% Northeastbound11% |
| Luzon Strait | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 1 | 10.1 kn | · |
| Mona Passage | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | 14.9 kn | · |
| Ombai Strait | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | 1 | 14.0 kn | · |
| Torres Strait | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | 16.5 kn | · |
| Yucatan Channel | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | 9.7 kn | · |