ORBISPECT CHOKEPOINT WATCH →
MARITIME TRADE ANALYTICS

Compare ports and chokepoints, side by side, on real shipping records.

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.

Public view — data delayed by about one week. Series run to —. Live and intraday access is available on subscription.

Ports to compare

Chokepoints & routes

Port calls / week Trade volume (Mt) / week
All Container Tanker
Ports — weekly trend PORT CALLS / WEEK
Source: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Weekly aggregation of daily port calls. Public view delayed ~1 week.
Chokepoints — weekly transits TRANSITS / WEEK · SINCE 2019
Source: IMF PortWatch. Weekly transits through each chokepoint. The 2024 divergence between the Red Sea and the Cape of Good Hope is the rerouting around Africa.

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.

PUBLIC VIEW

Delayed, but complete

This page runs on the public series. It is the full history, aggregated weekly, but it stops about a week short of today.

  • Weekly port calls and trade volume
  • All six monitored chokepoints, back to 2019
  • Container and tanker breakdowns
FULL / LIVE ACCESS · SUBSCRIPTION

The current week, and below it

Subscribers see the latest week as it lands, daily resolution, and the full port universe with alerting on the moves that matter.

  • Up-to-date weekly and daily series
  • All 2,000+ ports, not the top 80
  • Threshold alerts and exportable data