About World Freight Monitor
World Freight Monitor is a permanent public record of what disrupts the movement of goods, and what each disruption measurably did to port calls and to canal and strait transits. This build covers 327 ports, 28 chokepoints, 50 trade lanes and 83 countries, with 53 reviewed events and daily data through 2026-09-13 (13 September 2026).
What it is
Trade press reports disruptions as news that scrolls away. Subscription analysts keep the numbers behind licences. Public dashboards publish raw series with no narrative and no memory. This site keeps a dated, sourced, linkable record of each disruption, with a before and after computed from public data by a published method.
It is written for journalists, students, analysts without a subscription budget, and anyone who has just read that a canal is blocked and wants to know what that does.
How records are made
Software watches the daily series and official notices and flags possible disruptions. A flag is only a prompt to look. An editor checks the sources, writes the record in our own words and approves it, and the site build rejects any record without that approval. Changes after publication are dated on the record and in the corrections log.
Every number on the site carries a source line generated from our source registry, and every measured effect says plainly that it shows timing, not cause. The full rules are on the methodology page.
What it is not
It is not a freight rate service. It does not publish commercial rate indices, forecasts or advice, and it does not track individual ships. It is not affiliated with the International Monetary Fund or any other data provider it cites.
Independence
The site currently carries no advertising and no sponsorship. No record is written, changed or removed at the request of a company named in it; factual errors are corrected through the corrections process like any other.
Contact
General questions: hello@worldfreightmonitor.com. Errors in a record: corrections@worldfreightmonitor.com.