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- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
Chokepoints
Maritime Oil-Transit Chokepoint
Turkish Straits
Bosphorus + Dardanelles; sole outlet for Black Sea crude.
On the interactive map
Transit volume
63.9 vessels/day · 16.1 tankers/day
IMF PortWatch counted an average of 63.9 vessels a day through Turkish Straits over the 7 days to 2026-07-26, against its 2025 average of 91.8/day.
PortWatch counts the Bosporus; our 'Turkish Straits' feature also covers the Dardanelles, which is counted separately upstream.
SOURCE: IMF PortWatch (Bosporus Strait), daily AIS-derived transit calls · as of 2026-07-26 · portwatch.imf.org
Maritime security risk
Turkish Straits lies outside the JMIC advisory area, so no maritime security level is published for it here. We show no level rather than a default one — absence of assessment is not an assessment of absence.
| JMIC region | Level |
|---|---|
| Strait of Hormuz | Severe |
| Gulf of Oman | Substantial |
| Gulf of Aden | Substantial |
| Arabian Gulf | Moderate |
| Arabian Sea | Moderate |
| Bab el-Mandeb / Southern Red Sea | Substantial |
| Somali Coast / Somali Basin | Moderate |
| Northern Red Sea / Suez Canal | Moderate |
| Eastern Mediterranean | Low |
Threat levels derived from Joint Maritime Information Centre (JMIC) advisory information, published via UKMTO. JMIC Advisory Note — Update 076, assessed 26 July 2026 · ukmto.org
Not for navigation or operational decisions. Consult UKMTO/JMIC directly. JMIC and UKMTO do not endorse OverWatts and have granted no licence for this use. Levels are transcribed by us; any error is ours.
On the live map, Turkish Straits shows real-time tanker congestion (a count of laden tankers within range), an EIA throughput calibration, and any active disruption affecting the route. Oil-transit volumes are from the U.S. EIA World Oil Transit Chokepoints analysis.
SOURCE: U.S. EIA