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THE INTELLIGENCE PORTAL / SERIESSER-MAR-BAB-EL-MANDEB · OPEN DATA · 2026
SeriesSER-MAR-BAB-EL-MANDEBSupply Chain & LogisticsCreated 2019-01-01Updated 2026-10-25IMF PortWatch (T4)Standard: AEGEAN-OS v1.3
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Bab el-Mandeb

Daily vessel transits through Bab el-Mandeb, counted by IMF PortWatch from AIS positions and collected every morning by the firm's Dashboard pipeline.

Reading and history

The latest value with its seven- and thirty-day change, the full history on file, and the last thirty observations as a table.
36transits/day · 2026-10-25
+4 (+12.5%)Change over seven days · from 2026-10-18
+7 (+24.1%)Change over thirty days · from 2026-09-25
202 against 247Seven-day transits against baselineAMBER

The Dashboard says: Red Sea approach. 82% of pre-war reference flow; 103% of the trailing mean. Below 85 percent of baseline is amber, below 70 percent is red.

Bab el-Mandeb, transits/day, 20 October 2025 to 25 October 2026Bab el-Mandeb in transits/day from 20 October 2025 to 25 October 2026, 365 observations. Last value 36 on 25 October 2026, down from 41 at the start of the window. Baseline 35.29 drawn dashed.10203040502025-10-202026-01-192026-04-202026-07-272026-10-25BASELINE, DAILY 35.29TRANSITS/DAY
365 OBSERVATIONS · 2025-10-20 TO 2026-10-25 · LAST 365 OF 2849IMF PORTWATCH (T4) · DAILY VALUES
The last 30 observations as a table
Datetransits/day
2026-10-2536
2026-10-2421
2026-10-2332
2026-10-2223
2026-10-2121
2026-10-2033
2026-10-1936
2026-10-1832
2026-10-1729
2026-10-1625
2026-10-1524
2026-10-1424
2026-10-1317
2026-10-1234
2026-10-1131
2026-10-1022
2026-10-0924
2026-10-0825
2026-10-0735
2026-10-0633
2026-10-0528
2026-10-0434
2026-10-0330
2026-10-0226
2026-10-0128
2026-09-3022
2026-09-2937
2026-09-2830
2026-09-2727
2026-09-2629

About this series

Where the readings come from, how the source is graded, how often it updates, and what to bear in mind.
SourceIMF PortWatch
On the Dashboard: Maritime tab
TierT4
Cadence and lagAppended daily by the collectors; PortWatch itself publishes with a lag of several days.
CaveatsCounts are PortWatch's AIS-derived estimates. Gaps in the series are gaps in the upstream data and are not filled. Baselines and status colours on the Dashboard are the firm's derivation and are not in this file.

Download and cite

The package this series ships in, its checksum, and the citation line.
Packagemaritime-chokepoints · version 2026-10-28
Filesdata.csv · datasheet
SHA-256 of data.csvc62e20524b557a8b4afa41efd37dabf8ad313415b0696d03d7f4adf500865ba8
Aegean Intelligence Group, "Maritime chokepoint transits", series Bab el-Mandeb (SER-MAR-BAB-EL-MANDEB), open data package maritime-chokepoints, version 2026-10-28, aegeanintel.com/data/series/bab-el-mandeb/. Free to use with attribution; no warranty.

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