Hormuz Vessel Traffic

AIS vessel presence in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman, 2026. Source: Global Fishing Watch.

Vessel presenceVessel-hours per 5 km cell, by month. Going darkAIS gaps: where a ship went silent. Dashed path = inferred sea route from last seen to reappeared (not a track). Off routeCells with traffic outside the Jan–Feb lanes, for the month shown. Compare two monthsRed: more vessel-hours than the other month. Blue: fewer. EncountersShip-to-ship meetings (GFW). Impossible jumpsNot available: needs raw AIS positions, which GFW does not publish. Ship tracksNot available: GFW's vessel-track dataset is restricted (HTTP 403 for this account).

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Gridded vessel-hours (0.05° cells); no ship tracks (GFW does not publish raw positions). Low counts near coasts can reflect GNSS jamming. CC BY-NC.