Maritime disruption intelligence · Wednesday, September 16
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7d avg
$100
7d range
$93 - $106
vs 7d avg
+3.5%
High bunker-cost pressure likely on long-haul lanes.
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Index day · 16 Sept 2026Proprietary composite score across 23 tracked ports, weighted toward active hotspots. Rolls forward on a daily cadence (UTC).
What moves the headline score?
- Congestion delta vessel-call pressure vs a 30-day baseline (IMF PortWatch).
- Vessel pressure count vs a rolling norm for the port.
- Dwell variance how unusual turnaround times are vs recent history.
- Geo / route risk when present, overlays route and geopolitical stress on the composite.
Hover any port row for its live driver mix (0–100 sub-scores).
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Port Congestion
- CartagenaHigh+44%
- GenovaHigh+43%
- HamburgHigh+32%
- Le HavreHigh+25%
- MarseilleHigh+30%
- MiamiHigh+40%
- New York / NJHigh+43%
- Port SaidHigh+70%
- SeattleHigh+152%
- TemaHigh+79%
- BarcelonaMedium+12%
- CallaoMedium+14%
- ChittagongMedium+22%
- ColonMedium+9%
- MontrealMedium+13%
- MundraMedium+8%
- Ningbo-ZhoushanMedium+9%
- Tanjung Priok (Jakarta)Medium+23%
- AlgecirasLow-24%
- Antwerp-BrugesLow-8%
- Buenos AiresLow-75%
- CharlestonLow-32%
- ColomboLow-5%
- DurbanLow+1%
- FelixstoweLow-2%
- FremantleLow-28%
- Gioia TauroLow-15%
- Hai PhongLow-30%
- Hong KongLow-19%
- HoustonLow+4%
- Jebel Ali (Dubai)Low-30%
- Long BeachLow+2%
- ManilaLow-5%
- MombasaLow-35%
- OsakaLow-29%
- PiraeusLow-36%
- Port HedlandLow-9%
- RotterdamLow-10%
- SalalahLow-50%
- SavannahLow+0%
- ShanghaiLow-16%
- SingaporeLow+0%
- Tianjin (Xingang)Low-11%
- TokyoLow+2%
- ValenciaLow-10%
Seas calm across all 10 monitored ports
OpenWeatherIMF PortWatch · daily snapshot
Source snapshot · 2026-09-16 (UTC day)
vs 30d avg
Chokepoints
vessels · vs 30d avg- Strait of Hormuz–
- Suez Canal–
- Bab el-Mandeb–
- Cape of Good Hope–
IMF PortWatch · AIS satellite · weekly
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