Panama Canal
medium riskMostly refined products from the USA to South America and Asia. Too narrow for large tankers.
Answer
About 2.1 million barrels of crude and fuels pass through here every day – ~2% of seaborne trade, or one supertanker a day. The map shows 0 thousand of that in crude oil routes.
U.S. EIA 2023 · UN Comtrade 2025
Key figures
- Oil and products a day, barrels per day
- 2.1 million
How much oil passes through the Panama Canal?
About 2.1 million barrels of crude and fuels pass through here every day – ~2% of seaborne trade, or one supertanker a day. The map shows 0 thousand of that in crude oil routes.
U.S. EIA · 2023
Why is the Panama Canal a risk?
Droughts in 2023–24 limited the number of transits; the canal is too narrow for large tankers.
Sources
- U.S. EIA – crude oil and petroleum products passing through maritime chokepoints · 2023
- UN Comtrade – crude oil imports by country of origin (HS 2709), as reported by the importing country · 2025
- JODI-Oil – national crude oil production, imports and exports · 2025
Related questions
Download the data
CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0 – credit “chokepoints.io” with a link. Volumes in thousand barrels per day, 2025 annual averages.
Countries (CSV)Trade routes (CSV)Chokepoints (CSV)Everything (JSON)DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23267750 (Zenodo)