What is disrupting the movement of goods

World Freight Monitor records 73 disruptions to the movement of goods, 10 of them ongoing, across 339 ports and 28 chokepoints in this build. Daily port and chokepoint data runs through 2026-11-08 (8 November 2026).

Events recorded73

Ongoing10

Ports covered339

Chokepoints covered28

Data through2026-11-08

What changed, 2026-11-02 (2 November 2026) to 2026-11-08 (8 November 2026)

New events

None this week.

Corrections

None this week.

Ongoing disruptions, biggest 28 day moves

Durban Gateway Terminal backlog follows terminal operating system cutoverPort calls, Durban: 7.1 a day (+22%)
Strait of Hormuz closed to most shipping during the Iran warTransits, all vessel types, Strait of Hormuz: 3.8 a day (+16%)
Strait of Hormuz closed to most shipping during the Iran warPort calls, Fujairah: 8.4 a day (+15%)
Ver.di warning strikes halt container handling at German seaportsPort calls, Bremerhaven: 11.6 a day (-9%)
Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea divert traffic around AfricaTransits, container ships, Bab el-Mandeb Strait: 5.7 a day (+6%)
Panama Canal cuts Neopanamax draft and daily transit slotsTransits, all vessel types, Panama Canal: 27.8 a day (+5%)

New events and corrections are those dated in the last 7 days of data. Moves compare the last 28 days with the 28 before, a plain average, not a measured effect.All ongoing disruptions. Full corrections log.

Disruptions on the map

1 Minor
2 Moderate
3 Significant
4 Severe
5 Critical
Ongoing

Year: All

Map of 73 recorded disruptions. Every event is also listed in the table below.

73 of 73 recorded events are on this map; the slider picks a year. Pins are coloured and sized by severity. Each pin marks the first port, chokepoint or lane routing the event lists, not an exact position. All events. How severity is assigned.

Taiwan Strait averaged 223.5 transits a day in the 28 days to 2026-11-08, the most of any chokepoint in this build.

Fact of the day

All facts

2026-11-12 (12 November 2026)

Arabian Gulf to Northwest Europe crude: sailing around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the Suez Canal adds 4,703 nautical miles, 72.7 percent more, on the printed table distances.

Distances: US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Pub. 151, Distances Between Ports, 11th edition (2001). World Freight Monitor (worldfreightmonitor.com).

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Chokepoint transits, last 28 days

Busiest chokepoints by daily transits, last 28 days versus the previous 28 days
Chokepoint	Last 28 days	Previous 28 days	Change
Taiwan Strait	223.5	229.5	-2.6%
Malacca Strait	220.4	226.7	-2.8%
Korea Strait	202.0	215.5	-6.3%
Dover Strait	166.4	167.0	-0.3%
Bohai Strait	154.9	157.1	-1.4%
Gibraltar Strait	127.1	132.3	-3.9%
Luzon Strait	93.8	94.3	-0.5%
Cape of Good Hope	85.7	87.1	-1.6%

Transits a day, IMF PortWatch, all vessel types. The 8 busiest of 28 chokepoints are listed. All 28 chokepoints.

Recent events

Most recent events
Start	Event	Type	Status	Severity
2026-09-28	Italian port workers hold 24 hour national strike	Labour action	ended	1 Minor
2026-09-22	Hurricane Polo restricts shipping at Mexican Pacific ports	Weather stoppage	ended	2 Moderate
2026-09-20	Typhoon Dujuan halts cargo calls at Yokohama and Tokyo Bay ports	Weather stoppage	ended	3 Significant
2026-08-26	Typhoon Saudel closes Ningbo and Shanghai container terminals	Weather stoppage	ended	3 Significant
2026-08-17	Ver.di warning strikes halt container handling at German seaports	Labour action	ongoing	2 Moderate
2026-08-15	Durban Gateway Terminal backlog follows terminal operating system cutover	Congestion episode	ongoing	2 Moderate
2026-08-10	Earthquake suspends container terminals at Colombia's Buenaventura port	Terminal closure	ongoing	2 Moderate
2026-08-07	Typhoon Dolphin halts container terminals at Ningbo and Shanghai	Weather stoppage	ended	3 Significant
2026-08-01	River pilots stop work on the Parana corridor in Argentina	Labour action	ended	4 Severe
2026-08-01	Record low water at Kaub restricts Rhine barge shipping	Drought restriction	ongoing	3 Significant

All events

Strait of Hormuz transits

Strait of Hormuz, daily transits, all vessel types, 2026-07-12 (12 July 2026) to 2026-11-08 (8 November 2026): values ranged from 0 transits per day on 2026-07-23 to 10 transits per day on 2026-07-13, with a mean of 4.2 transits per day. The latest value, for 2026-11-08, was 3 transits per day.

Source: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org), International Monetary Fund, using UN Global Platform AIS data. Statistics derived by World Freight Monitor. Terms. Retrieved 2026-11-10 (10 November 2026).

Strait of Hormuz, daily transits, all vessel types (transits per day).
Date	transits per day
2026-07-12	4
2026-07-13	10
2026-07-14	8
2026-07-15	9
2026-07-16	6
2026-07-17	1
2026-07-18	6
2026-07-19	4
2026-07-20	5
2026-07-21	6
2026-07-22	6
2026-07-23	0
2026-07-24	3
2026-07-25	2
2026-07-26	3
2026-07-27	5
2026-07-28	5
2026-07-29	7
2026-07-30	4
2026-07-31	8
2026-08-01	5
2026-08-02	3
2026-08-03	6
2026-08-04	7
2026-08-05	5
2026-08-06	2
2026-08-07	6
2026-08-08	10
2026-08-09	3
2026-08-10	4
2026-08-11	9
2026-08-12	3
2026-08-13	6
2026-08-14	7
2026-08-15	1
2026-08-16	1
2026-08-17	4
2026-08-18	6
2026-08-19	6
2026-08-20	5
2026-08-21	4
2026-08-22	7
2026-08-23	3
2026-08-24	3
2026-08-25	4
2026-08-26	5
2026-08-27	2
2026-08-28	7
2026-08-29	3
2026-08-30	6
2026-08-31	3
2026-09-01	4
2026-09-02	3
2026-09-03	2
2026-09-04	2
2026-09-05	2
2026-09-06	6
2026-09-07	5
2026-09-08	6
2026-09-09	3
2026-09-10	5
2026-09-11	8
2026-09-12	2
2026-09-13	8
2026-09-14	2
2026-09-15	2
2026-09-16	1
2026-09-17	3
2026-09-18	7
2026-09-19	6
2026-09-20	1
2026-09-21	2
2026-09-22	3
2026-09-23	4
2026-09-24	5
2026-09-25	3
2026-09-26	4
2026-09-27	1
2026-09-28	4
2026-09-29	1
2026-09-30	4
2026-10-01	0
2026-10-02	4
2026-10-03	2
2026-10-04	4
2026-10-05	8
2026-10-06	2
2026-10-07	6
2026-10-08	4
2026-10-09	3
2026-10-10	4
2026-10-11	2
2026-10-12	3
2026-10-13	7
2026-10-14	3
2026-10-15	2
2026-10-16	7
2026-10-17	0
2026-10-18	4
2026-10-19	4
2026-10-20	3
2026-10-21	3
2026-10-22	4
2026-10-23	5
2026-10-24	2
2026-10-25	2
2026-10-26	5
2026-10-27	4
2026-10-28	3
2026-10-29	3
2026-10-30	7
2026-10-31	8
2026-11-01	1
2026-11-02	2
2026-11-03	4
2026-11-04	5
2026-11-05	5
2026-11-06	6
2026-11-07	2
2026-11-08	3

Strait of Hormuz history and events, featured here because it has a recorded disruption ongoing.

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On this day

Recorded on 12 November in earlier years, as of 2026-11-12 (12 November 2026).

Lockout of ship and dock foremen stops British Columbia ports2024-11-12 (12 November 2024), 2 years ago. Severity 3 of 5 (Significant). A dated step in the event timeline
Lockout of longshore workers closes Port of Montreal terminals2024-11-12 (12 November 2024), 2 years ago. Severity 2 of 5 (Moderate). A dated step in the event timeline
DP World Australia disconnects its network after a cyber incident2023-11-12 (12 November 2023), 3 years ago. Severity 2 of 5 (Moderate). A dated step in the event timeline

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Busiest ports

All 339 ports, all 28 chokepoints, trade lanes and countries. Ranks computed by World Freight Monitor from IMF PortWatch daily port calls, 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026.