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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 2026-09-06IMF 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.
23transits/day · 2026-09-06
-6 (-20.7%)Change over seven days · from 2026-08-30
-7 (-23.3%)Change over thirty days · from 2026-08-07
178 against 247Seven-day transits against baselineAMBER

The Dashboard says: Red Sea approach. 72% of pre-war reference flow; 93% of the trailing mean. Below 85 percent of baseline is amber, below 70 percent is red.

Bab el-Mandeb, transits/day, 1 September 2025 to 6 September 2026Bab el-Mandeb in transits/day from 1 September 2025 to 6 September 2026, 365 observations. Last value 23 on 6 September 2026, down from 29 at the start of the window. Baseline 35.29 drawn dashed.10203040502025-09-012025-12-012026-03-022026-06-022026-09-06BASELINE, DAILY 35.29TRANSITS/DAY
365 OBSERVATIONS · 2025-09-01 TO 2026-09-06 · LAST 365 OF 2800IMF PORTWATCH (T4) · DAILY VALUES
The last 30 observations as a table
Datetransits/day
2026-09-0623
2026-09-0518
2026-09-0432
2026-09-0324
2026-09-0238
2026-09-0119
2026-08-3124
2026-08-3029
2026-08-2920
2026-08-2827
2026-08-2721
2026-08-2626
2026-08-2525
2026-08-2436
2026-08-2329
2026-08-2233
2026-08-2121
2026-08-2029
2026-08-1933
2026-08-1832
2026-08-1729
2026-08-1636
2026-08-1540
2026-08-1431
2026-08-1320
2026-08-1225
2026-08-1125
2026-08-1029
2026-08-0934
2026-08-0825

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 2026-09-12
Filesdata.csv · datasheet
SHA-256 of data.csve6bba9dcddf3a4c9a48b1eb25a9172229494835858d4e00b0c178fc62b0aaf53
Aegean Intelligence Group, "Maritime chokepoint transits", series Bab el-Mandeb (SER-MAR-BAB-EL-MANDEB), open data package maritime-chokepoints, version 2026-09-12, aegeanintel.com/data/series/bab-el-mandeb/. Free to use with attribution; no warranty.

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