Maritime Oil-Transit Chokepoint

Suez Canal & SUMED

9
Mb/d oil transit (EIA)
40.9
vessels/day (PortWatch, 7d mean)

Links Red Sea and Mediterranean; SUMED pipeline parallels it.

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Transit volume

7-day mean vs 2025 average107% of baseline

40.9 vessels/day · 15.4 tankers/day

IMF PortWatch counted an average of 40.9 vessels a day through Suez Canal & SUMED over the 7 days to 2026-07-26, against its 2025 average of 38.4/day.

PortWatch counts canal transits only; our feature also names the parallel SUMED pipeline, which moves crude overland and is not a vessel transit.

SOURCE: IMF PortWatch (Suez Canal), daily AIS-derived transit calls · as of 2026-07-26 · portwatch.imf.org

Maritime security risk

Suez Canal & SUMEDModerate

An attack is possible but not likely.

JMIC regionLevel
Strait of HormuzSevere
Gulf of OmanSubstantial
Gulf of AdenSubstantial
Arabian GulfModerate
Arabian SeaModerate
Bab el-Mandeb / Southern Red SeaSubstantial
Somali Coast / Somali BasinModerate
Northern Red Sea / Suez CanalModerate
Eastern MediterraneanLow

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, Suez Canal & SUMED 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