Bab el-Mandeb Strait live traffic
Monitoring started recently (0 full days of history). A status appears after 2 full days of data.
AIS feed: Live · last signal 0 minutes ago
Direction, last 24 h
| Red Sea → Gulf of Aden | 0 |
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| Gulf of Aden → Red Sea | 0 |
Last 7 days
| Red Sea → Gulf of Aden | 0 |
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| Gulf of Aden → Red Sea | 0 |
Ship types, last 24 h
| Tanker | 0 | |
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| Cargo | 0 | |
| Container | 0 | |
| LNG / LPG | 0 | |
| Passenger | 0 | |
| Other / Unknown | 0 |
Daily transits, last 30 days
No completed transits recorded yet. The chart appears as soon as the first day of data is collected.
Comparisons
| Last 24 h vs previous 24 h | not enough history yet | |
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| Last 24 h vs 7-day daily average | not enough history yet | |
| Last 7 days vs previous 7 days | not enough history yet | |
| Last 24 h vs 30-day daily average | not enough history yet | |
Live map
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Bab el-Mandeb links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and is the southern gateway to the Suez Canal route between Asia and Europe. Every ship on the Suez route passes here, so transit counts react immediately to diversions around the Cape of Good Hope.
How transits are counted
The monitored zone covers the narrows around Perim Island. A transit is counted when a vessel moves from the Red Sea side to the Gulf of Aden side or the reverse. Counts are split by direction and by vessel category, and daily history builds up from the first day of monitoring.
Data source: AIS via terrestrial receivers. Coverage can be incomplete and delayed; StraitTraffic is not a navigation aid. Methodology