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Major Oil Flows and Chokepoints, 2005-6

Bosporus (2.4 Mbd)


Suez (4.5 Mbd)

Panama (0.5 Mbd)

Hormuz (16.5 Mbd)

Bab el-Mandab (3.3 Mbd)


Malacca (15.0 Mbd)

Annual Traffic (2005)


50 to 100 M tons
100 to 200 M tons
200 to 300 M tons
Greater than 300 M tons

Source: Adapted from The International Tankers Owners Pollution Federation Limited &
Energy Information Administration, World Oil Transit Chokepoints.
Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue & John Field, Dept. of Global Studies & Geography, Hofstra University

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