State of the strait

Kerch Strait

week W28 · to 12 Jul · data refreshed 2026-07-12 · IMF PortWatch

Transit calls · W28 · to 12 Jul

-30 on the week

2024-25 weekly baseline

flagged critical

Of baseline

steady

Kerch Strait: 28 weekly transits

All vessel transit calls per week, last 27 weeks, to 2026-07-12.

Source: IMF PortWatch · Graphic: Le Phare

Live picture

These waters run dark on open AIS: shore receivers are scarce or silenced here (war zone, jamming, ships switching off), and the satellite view that fills this gap is what underwriters pay for. The weekly series above still counts every transit — and the absence itself feeds the AIS integrity watch.

connecting to live feed…

underwaymoored / anchoredghost (earlier)

Live AIS: Fintraffic Digitraffic (Baltic, CC BY 4.0) · aisstream.io — one stream over all twelve straits, listening from the moment the page opens, last picture cached locally · faint ghost dots are the traffic heard in the last server session (refreshed every 6 h) and fade out as the live picture reaches its target · coverage relies on volunteer shore receivers and can run thin (Hormuz notably, where jamming also suppresses AIS) · vessels fade after 12 min of silence

Incidents in these waters

Curated events from public reporting (July 2024 onward), within the strait's monitored box. The full record, including the NGA ASAM archive, lives in the incident database.

No curated incident on record in this strait's box since July 2024.