Suez Canal / SUMED
high riskThe canal plus the SUMED pipeline (Red Sea → Mediterranean). Laden VLCCs don't fit through the canal – they offload part of the cargo into SUMED.
Answer
About 8.8 million barrels of crude and fuels pass through here every day – ~9% of seaborne trade, or 4 supertankers a day. The map shows 3.1 million of that in crude oil routes. The countries most dependent on the Suez Canal / SUMED are Poland (48% of imports), Lithuania (47% of imports), Greece (39% of imports) and India (36% of imports).
U.S. EIA 2023 · UN Comtrade 2025
Key figures
- Oil and products a day, barrels per day
- 8.8 million
- Most dependent country
- Poland · 48%
- Largest supplier through it
- Russia · 57%
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How much oil passes through the Suez Canal / SUMED?
About 8.8 million barrels of crude and fuels pass through here every day – ~9% of seaborne trade, or 4 supertankers a day. The map shows 3.1 million of that in crude oil routes.
U.S. EIA · 2023
Why is the Suez Canal / SUMED a risk?
Depends on the situation in the Red Sea; the Ever Given blockage (2021) halted 12% of world trade for 6 days.
The countries most dependent on the Suez Canal / SUMED are Poland (48% of imports), Lithuania (47% of imports), Greece (39% of imports) and India (36% of imports).
Which countries depend on the Suez Canal / SUMED?
| Country | share | thousand b/d |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 48% of imports | 242 |
| Lithuania | 47% of imports | 89 |
| Greece | 39% of imports | 164 |
| India | 36% of imports | 1,782 |
| Bulgaria | 32% of imports | 31 |
| Turkey | 23% of imports | 150 |
| Croatia | 19% of imports | 10 |
| Austria | 16% of imports | 26 |
| Belgium | 13% of imports | 80 |
| Netherlands | 13% of imports | 141 |
| Serbia | 11% of imports | 5 |
| Czechia | 11% of imports | 15 |
| Spain | 10% of imports | 128 |
| France | 10% of imports | 91 |
| Italy | 9% of imports | 102 |
| Slovakia | 8% of imports | 9 |
| Germany | 5% of imports | 76 |
UN Comtrade, JODI-Oil · 2025
Whose oil is it?
| Supplier | share | thousand b/d |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | 57% | 1,782 |
| Saudi Arabia | 22% | 682 |
| Iraq | 22% | 677 |
UN Comtrade, JODI-Oil · 2025
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
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CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0 – credit “chokepoints.io” with a link. Volumes in thousand barrels per day, 2025 annual averages.
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