Ask about the route, not the database.
Every answer comes from a published source and says which one. Where no published source answers, it says that instead of guessing — which is the only way a figure here is worth anything.
What has moved
as at 2026-10-04
The three series where the past week sits furthest from the past quarter. Not everything we hold — the platforms that hand you everything are the reason this one exists.
Bosporus Strait
transits/day · 4 Oct 2026
72
365 daily readings, drawn as a 7-day rolling mean · IMF PortWatch / ECB
Over the past week Bosporus Strait has averaged 58.3 transits/day, 24% below its 90-day average of 76.3, and 42% below the same week last year. Fewer ships through a strait means the traffic has gone somewhere else, and that capacity has to come from somewhere.
Bab el-Mandeb Strait
transits/day · 4 Oct 2026
34
365 daily readings, drawn as a 7-day rolling mean · IMF PortWatch / ECB
Over the past week Bab el-Mandeb Strait has averaged 28.4 transits/day, 17% below its 90-day average of 34.4, and 19% below the same week last year. Fewer ships through a strait means the traffic has gone somewhere else, and that capacity has to come from somewhere.
Brent crude
USD/bbl · 6 Oct 2026
125
365 daily readings, drawn as a 7-day rolling mean · IMF PortWatch / ECB
Over the past week Brent crude has averaged 111.3 USD/bbl, 15% above its 90-day average of 97.1, and 66% above the same week last year. For anybody with costs on one side of that pair and sales on the other, this is the margin.
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What it will not do: name a supplier. Who ships what is not published here and will not be. When a buyer wants an introduction, a person arranges it and the supplier decides whether to accept — which is a slower answer than a database gives, and the only one either side has agreed to.