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Malacca Strait traffic topped 100,000 ship passages in 2025
The Strait of Malacca runs between Indonesia’s Sumatra island and the Malay Peninsula, where Malaysia and Singapore are located.
It links the Indian and Pacific oceans and is a major route for trade in Asia and around the world.
In 2025, ship traffic through the strait passed 100,000 for the first time, reaching 102,525 passages.
That was up from 60,064 in 2002.
The strait and the nearby Singapore Strait carry a large share of global container trade and oil shipments by sea.
Its position makes it important to the economies of the countries along its shores.
Local authorities are looking for ways to gain economic value from the busy maritime corridor.
The account does not specify what steps they plan to take.
Ship traffic through the Strait of Malacca exceeded 100,000 passages for the first time in 2025.
The traffic total reached 102,525 passages, according to Singapore’s vessel traffic information system.
The strait lies between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Its location links routes between the Indian and Pacific oceans and is vital to Asian trade, Gulf oil and the global economy.
- Who
- Ships transiting the Strait of Malacca.
- What
- Traffic exceeded 100,000 passages for the first time, reaching 102,525.
- When
- In 2025.
- Where
- The Strait of Malacca, between the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia’s Sumatra island.
- Why
- The strait’s position links major maritime routes between the Indian and Pacific oceans and serves global trade.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
One third of global container trade and one quarter of global maritime oil trade pass each year through the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Singapore
Traffic in the Strait of Malacca was 60,064 passages.
Traffic reached 102,525 passages, exceeding 100,000 for the first time.
- Passages in 2025
- 102,525
- Passages in 2002
- 60,064
- Location
- Between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
- Length
- 900 kilometres
- global container trade
- One third passes through the Malacca and Singapore straits annually
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