Strait of Gibraltar live traffic
Atlantic Ocean ↔ Mediterranean Sea
Normal traffic
139 transits on 13 September · 7-day average 133.4 per day
IMF PortWatch counts ships that complete a transit, from satellite AIS. Latest published day: 13 September 2026 (5 days behind today); the series is updated weekly. Next release expected around 22 September. Methodology
Daily transits since 2019 · IMF PortWatch
Bars: transits per UTC day. Line: 7-day average. Numbered markers: events from the timeline below.
Vessel types last 30 days · IMF PortWatch
On 13 Sep: Tankers 38 · Container ships 37 · Dry bulk 29 · General cargo 25 · Ro-ro 10
Latest news via Google News
- 16 Sep 2026, 12:15 UTC US Tankers Targeted in Cyberattacks from Hormuz to Gibraltar تسنیم
Collected automatically from news media by keyword filters and not verified by StraitTraffic. Dated events that explain the numbers are in the timeline.
Vessels right now and our own transit count
Positions received in the last 30 minutes from shore-based AIS receivers, and transits counted by StraitTraffic from those signals. Independent of the official statistics above.
Our transits, last 30 days
Completed transits per UTC day. Today is partial.
Last 7 days: 449
Direction last 24h · our count
Last 7 days: Atlantic Ocean → Mediterranean Sea 250 · Mediterranean Sea → Atlantic Ocean 199
Ship types last 24h · our count
Recent transits UTC · our count
- 13:38 SIDER MONTEDIPROCIDA · Cargo → Atlantic Ocean
- 13:27 BRITISH ACHIEVER · Tanker → Mediterranean Sea
- 13:15 WOLFSBURG · Cargo → Atlantic Ocean
- 11:37 WONDER ALTAIR · Tanker → Atlantic Ocean
- 11:33 SANTA IRINI · Cargo → Mediterranean Sea
- 11:33 PLUTO · Cargo → Atlantic Ocean
- 11:07 JATULI · Tanker → Atlantic Ocean
- 10:56 YM WINDOW · Cargo → Atlantic Ocean
About Strait of Gibraltar traffic
The Strait of Gibraltar is the only natural gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Every ship bound for Southern Europe, North Africa or the Suez route from the Americas and West Africa passes the 14-kilometre gap between Tarifa and Morocco, which makes it one of the busiest waterways in the world with well over a hundred transits a day.
How transits are counted
StraitTraffic counts a transit when a vessel is seen in the Atlantic approaches, then inside the strait between Tarifa and Punta Cires, and then in the Alboran Sea, or the reverse. Ferries between Algeciras, Tarifa and Tangier cross the strait rather than pass through it and are not counted. Official daily totals come from IMF PortWatch and go back to 2019.
79 passages in the last 24 hours could not be confirmed and are excluded from the counts.