Bab el-Mandeb Strait: daily transits, all vessel types

Bab el-Mandeb Strait, daily transits, all vessel types, last 120 days, 2026-05-17 (17 May 2026) to 2026-09-13 (13 September 2026): values ranged from 14 transits per day on 2026-08-05 to 47 transits per day on 2026-06-04, with a mean of 32.5 transits per day. The latest value, for 2026-09-13, was 31 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 2026-09-15 (15 September 2026).

Bab el-Mandeb Strait, daily transits, all vessel types, last 120 days (transits per day).
Date	transits per day
2026-05-17	34
2026-05-18	45
2026-05-19	45
2026-05-20	37
2026-05-21	35
2026-05-22	38
2026-05-23	42
2026-05-24	46
2026-05-25	37
2026-05-26	26
2026-05-27	40
2026-05-28	42
2026-05-29	30
2026-05-30	32
2026-05-31	33
2026-06-01	41
2026-06-02	38
2026-06-03	31
2026-06-04	47
2026-06-05	28
2026-06-06	41
2026-06-07	37
2026-06-08	31
2026-06-09	38
2026-06-10	32
2026-06-11	41
2026-06-12	41
2026-06-13	38
2026-06-14	33
2026-06-15	35
2026-06-16	25
2026-06-17	42
2026-06-18	41
2026-06-19	41
2026-06-20	39
2026-06-21	37
2026-06-22	30
2026-06-23	30
2026-06-24	37
2026-06-25	46
2026-06-26	36
2026-06-27	32
2026-06-28	37
2026-06-29	36
2026-06-30	38
2026-07-01	32
2026-07-02	39
2026-07-03	31
2026-07-04	31
2026-07-05	34
2026-07-06	29
2026-07-07	27
2026-07-08	32
2026-07-09	29
2026-07-10	27
2026-07-11	44
2026-07-12	41
2026-07-13	46
2026-07-14	46
2026-07-15	40
2026-07-16	33
2026-07-17	46
2026-07-18	40
2026-07-19	33
2026-07-20	35
2026-07-21	26
2026-07-22	31
2026-07-23	34
2026-07-24	30
2026-07-25	22
2026-07-26	20
2026-07-27	32
2026-07-28	33
2026-07-29	34
2026-07-30	38
2026-07-31	28
2026-08-01	20
2026-08-02	30
2026-08-03	17
2026-08-04	27
2026-08-05	14
2026-08-06	31
2026-08-07	30
2026-08-08	25
2026-08-09	34
2026-08-10	29
2026-08-11	25
2026-08-12	25
2026-08-13	20
2026-08-14	31
2026-08-15	40
2026-08-16	36
2026-08-17	29
2026-08-18	32
2026-08-19	33
2026-08-20	29
2026-08-21	21
2026-08-22	33
2026-08-23	29
2026-08-24	36
2026-08-25	25
2026-08-26	26
2026-08-27	21
2026-08-28	27
2026-08-29	20
2026-08-30	29
2026-08-31	24
2026-09-01	19
2026-09-02	38
2026-09-03	24
2026-09-04	32
2026-09-05	18
2026-09-06	23
2026-09-07	34
2026-09-08	22
2026-09-09	35
2026-09-10	27
2026-09-11	22
2026-09-12	20
2026-09-13	31

Bab el-Mandeb Strait on World Freight Monitor, with disruption history.