Market data

Maritime markets at a glance

Energy prices, traffic through the world's main shipping chokepoints and cargo volumes in European ports. Collected from public sources and updated daily.

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01 / Energy

Crude oil and the euro

Brent spot price, last 12 months (USD per barrel)

Daily Europe Brent spot price, FOB. Brent in euro is converted with the ECB reference rate of the same day, or the latest earlier rate.

02 / Shipping lanes

Transits through key chokepoints

Number of ship transits in the latest 7 days, compared with the same 7 days one year earlier (aligned by weekday).
Chokepoint	Last 7 daystransits	Year earliertransits	Changevs year earlier	Weekly transitslast 52 weeks

Estimates from satellite AIS signals of commercial vessels (container, dry bulk, general cargo, ro-ro and tanker). IMF PortWatch publishes new data weekly, so the latest figures are typically one to two weeks old.

03 / Ports

Cargo handled in European ports

Gross weight of goods handled, latest reported quarter, compared with the same quarter one year earlier.
Port or area	Quarter	Goods handledmillion tonnes	Year earliermillion tonnes	Changevs year earlier	Quarterly volumelast 12 quarters

Inwards and outwards, national and international traffic. Countries report to Eurostat with a delay of about one to two quarters, so the latest quarter can differ between ports.

Sources and notes

Brent: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Europe Brent spot price FOB, daily.
EUR/USD: European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates, daily.
Chokepoint transits: International Monetary Fund, IMF PortWatch, daily transit calls, updated weekly. Technocean sums the daily counts into 7-day totals and compares them with the same weekdays one year earlier. The data is available free of charge from the IMF.
Port throughput: Eurostat, gross weight of goods handled in main ports (mar_go_qm), quarterly. Shown in million tonnes.

Figures are collected automatically once a day and shown as published by the sources, apart from the stated conversions. Sources may revise their data. If a source is temporarily unavailable, the latest successfully collected figures are shown and marked.

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