One place for what changed, where, and what trade or route may be exposed — chokepoint and port activity, disruption events, route impact, commodity flows and sanctions/vessel context for a corridor, from real published data.
Since Houthi attacks forced much of Asia–Europe container and bulk traffic away from the Suez Canal in late 2023, and a historic drought cut Panama Canal transit capacity through much of 2023 and 2024, shipping and trade teams have needed a quick way to see what is actually happening on a corridor without piecing it together from several separate dashboards. Trade Disruption Monitor answers four questions for a selected corridor — Black Sea, Suez Canal/Red Sea or Panama Canal: what changed (currently published disruption events and the chokepoint transit trend), where (the specific chokepoints and ports tracked), what trade or route may be exposed (route distance/time reference figures, commodity trade flows where a verified source exists, and pointers to check a specific vessel or company), and what the available data actually show (the real reported transit and port-call figures behind the trend).
Every figure is one of three clearly separated kinds: real data published by IMF PortWatch or Eurostat Comext, with a source for every number; background context (the corridor's tracked locations and reference figures); or a Monaco Trade Forum estimate for a specific route, computed only from published figures plus numbers entered by the user, always labelled Estimate with the assumption behind it stated in plain language. Nothing here is a risk score, a prediction presented as fact, or live tracking of a specific vessel or shipment.
For the Black Sea corridor specifically, no reliable published source exists for an overland-versus-sea distance or time calculation, so no route simulation is offered there — only the real modal-split data for Ukrainian grain exports via EU Solidarity Lanes versus Black Sea ports, live chokepoint and port activity, and, uniquely for this corridor, a live Eurostat Comext commodity-trade-flow snapshot (Romania and Bulgaria's own reported trade with Ukraine, Moldova and Türkiye). No equivalent verified commodity-flow source exists yet for Suez/Red Sea or Panama, so that panel is marked unavailable there rather than estimated.
Trade Disruption Monitor is built for freight forwarders and shipowners scoping the impact of a live disruption on a specific voyage, trade finance and insurance teams assessing schedule risk, and commodity traders and logistics planners who need corridor-level situational awareness in one place. It is a planning aid, not a substitute for a canal booking, weather routing, or professional voyage-planning, freight or insurance advice.
One place to understand what may be disrupting a trade corridor right now — combining live chokepoint and port activity, published disruption events, route-impact reference figures, commodity trade flows where a verified source exists, and pointers into the Sanctions Checker and Vessel/Voyage Lookup. This reuses data and tools already published elsewhere on this site; it does not introduce a new data source or a risk score.
Currently published disruption events touching this corridor’s chokepoints/ports (IMF PortWatch), and the 7-day vessel-transit trend at its chokepoint(s) — the same ±5% Increasing/Declining/Stable comparison already used in Global Chokepoint Radar. Never a risk score, only an objective volume comparison.
The specific chokepoint(s) and ports Monaco Trade Forum tracks for this corridor. A location is flagged below only when a currently active event above names it directly — never inferred.
The real, unmodified figures behind the trend signal above — current and previous 7-day chokepoint transit totals, and the latest reported daily port calls. Source: IMF PortWatch for every figure below.