What the record shows
Select ports and chokepoints above to compare them. The chokepoint series reach back to 2019, so structural shocks — the late-2023 Red Sea disruption and the 2023–2024 Panama Canal drought — are visible directly in the lines.
Pick a region, choose the ports that matter to you, and read their weekly traffic against the world's maritime chokepoints. Every line is measured port-call and trade-volume data — not a model. The shocks are all in here: the Red Sea reroute, the Panama drought, the Strait of Hormuz.
A caveat worth stating plainly: AIS was built for collision avoidance, not surveillance, and it shows — industry tracking of 2025 traffic found over 1,900 tankers running dark and thousands of vessels a quarter suffering GPS jumps averaging thousands of kilometres from spoofing or jamming. Port-call counts here are anchored to IMF PortWatch's port-level aggregates, which are far harder to spoof than any single vessel's track, but no AIS-derived series is immune to the gap — which is why we treat AIS as one evidence layer, not the whole picture.
Select ports and chokepoints above to compare them. The chokepoint series reach back to 2019, so structural shocks — the late-2023 Red Sea disruption and the 2023–2024 Panama Canal drought — are visible directly in the lines.
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