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The world, moving
Every chokepoint IMF PortWatch counts, on one map: a dot for each ship through it, the week's earthquakes and storms where they struck, and U.S. orders at the places they name. Scrub or play thirteen months.
Chokepoint traffic · IMF PortWatch
1,862 transits a day through 28 chokepoints
−8% against the same days of 2019–2023, the week of Sep 14, 2026 to Sep 20, 2026. One dot is one ship; a day passes every four seconds. A lane's width is its normal traffic.
Transits a day from IMF PortWatch (ships' AIS transponders; a ship sailing dark is not counted), against the same days of 2019–2023; the months are PortWatch's monthly averages. Lanes are drawn through each passage, not measured tracks, and both directions run together. Quakes from USGS, storms from NASA EONET, and national emergencies and OFAC or BIS documents from the Federal Register, pinned only where they name a country or passage. PortWatch data to Sep 20, 2026.
The same passages drawn as the straits themselves, each opened to its traffic: The Narrows, on World → Every passage's record, month by month: the chokepoint register →