Water

Seahound / SeaLens

Chokepoints
Initial reference

Bab el-Mandeb

Red Sea / Gulf of Aden · Red Sea / Gulf of Aden

7

Ports

5

WPI ports

1

Terminals

0

Geo states

Decision Summary

Not instrumented

No SAR state

Latest baseline d

n/a

Latest weather d

n/a

Source coverage

71%

Strategic exposure

1

7 assigned ports, 1 corridor records, 2 route links,3 monitoring overlays, and 2 source-backed advisories are attached to this chokepoint.

Overview

Bordering states

Djibouti, Eritrea, Yemen

Narrowest width

16 nm

Sentinel-1 revisit

12 d

Baseline start

Oct 01, 2025

Baseline end

Feb 22, 2026

Source

initial_lanedb_atlas_seed

monitoring_zone_bbox = [42.500, 11.500, 44.200, 13.400]

Assigned Ports

5 oil-capable · 0 LNG-capable · 1 terminals

Explorer
PortTypeCountryFacilitiesSource
AdenTERMINALYemencrude_oil, refined_petroleum, containerized_goods
Source-backed
Aden PortCOMMERCIALYemencontainerized_goods, fuel
Initial reference
Al MukhaCOMMERCIALYemencrude_oil, refined_petroleum
Source-backed
AssabANCHORAGEEritreacrude_oil, refined_petroleum
Source-backed
DjiboutiANCHORAGEDjibouticrude_oil, refined_petroleum, containerized_goods
Source-backed
Djibouti PortCOMMERCIALDjibouticontainerized_goods, fuel
Initial reference
DoralehCOMMERCIALDjibouticrude_oil, refined_petroleum
Source-backed

Commodity Exposure

Crude Oil

BIDIRECTIONAL · ENERGY

Strategic

Volume

6.2

Unit

million barrels per day

Source

EIA World Oil Transit Chokepoints

Year

2023

Reference seed value; refresh against latest EIA chokepoint update before external publication.

Containerized Goods

BIDIRECTIONAL · INDUSTRIAL

Volume

n/a

Unit

TEU

Source

UNCTAD maritime trade references

Year

2023

Exposure row identifies container relevance; volume needs normalized corridor-level TEU methodology.

GeoEmbedding State

No geoEmbedding states yet

This chokepoint has SeaLens topology but no SARFormer/geoEmbedding time series loaded.