Taiwan Strait
230 vessels
+26 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Maritime chokepoints
The world’s busiest shipping chokepoints by current vessel traffic.
Compare the latest daily vessel traffic across the world’s major shipping chokepoints.
Latest available publication · 2026-10-18
Malacca Strait
227 vessels
+22 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Korea Strait
174 vessels
-19 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Dover Strait
173 vessels
-18 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Gibraltar Strait
142 vessels
+31 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Bohai Strait
135 vessels
+20 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Luzon Strait
79 vessels
-29 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Cape of Good Hope
78 vessels
+9 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Makassar Strait
66 vessels
+14 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Bosporus Strait
58 vessels
+7 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Tsugaru Strait
53 vessels
+2 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Mindoro Strait
52 vessels
-15 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Lombok Strait
48 vessels
+8 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Yucatan Channel
47 vessels
-1 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Suez Canal
43 vessels
+1 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Oresund Strait
42 vessels
+7 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Bab el-Mandeb Strait
32 vessels
+3 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Sunda Strait
32 vessels
+3 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Panama Canal
29 vessels
-1 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Windward Passage
16 vessels
+3 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Balabac Strait
15 vessels
+2 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Mona Passage
15 vessels
+2 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Ombai Strait
10 vessels
-2 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Magellan Strait
6 vessels
+2 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Strait of Hormuz
4 vessels
+4 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Torres Strait
2 vessels
-13 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Bering Strait
1 vessels
-3 vs prior daylatest daily activity
Kerch Strait
0 vessels
0 vs prior daylatest daily activity