How much of Greece’s trade passes through the Cape of Good Hope?

Estimated value of its trade with each partner that crosses the chokepoint; the percentage is the share of all its trade through the chokepoint, not of the pair’s trade.

1. Greece–China$6.5 billion · 35.8%
2. Greece–Iraq$4.7 billion · 25.6%
3. Greece–South Korea$2 billion · 10.8%
4. Greece–India$943 million · 5.2%
5. Greece–Russia$454 million · 2.5%
6. Greece–United Arab Emirates$369 million · 2%
7. Greece–Malaysia$334 million · 1.8%
8. Greece–Indonesia$324 million · 1.8%
9. Greece–Japan$277 million · 1.5%
10. Greece–Turkmenistan$275 million · 1.5%

The products with the highest estimated value in 2024, with their share of the total through the chokepoint.

1. Crude petroleum$4 billion · 22%
2. Refined petroleum$2.5 billion · 13.9%
3. Cargo and cruise ships$865 million · 4.8%
4. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$711 million · 3.9%
5. Unwrought aluminum$659 million · 3.6%
6. Natural gas and LPG$466 million · 2.6%
7. Cars$248 million · 1.4%
8. Air conditioners$214 million · 1.2%
9. Motorcycles$209 million · 1.2%
10. Transformers and power supplies$178 million · 0.98%

Piraeus (100%)

Each port with the weight it receives from the country’s trade, based on where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest.

• See Cape of Good Hope
• Greece trade

Other chokepoints it uses

• Strait of Gibraltar · 47%
• Strait of Dover · 21%
• Turkish Straits (Bosporus and Dardanelles) · 13%
• Strait of Malacca and Singapore · 11%
• Suez Canal · 5%
• Strait of Hormuz · 5%

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• World Bank, Global Shipping Traffic Density · CC BY 4.0 (route network derived by this site)
• World Port Index (NGA) · Public domain (US Government work)
• Natural Earth · Public domain
• Kummu et al., gridded GDP · CC BY 4.0 (split between ports done by this site)

Methodology

We estimate the value crossing each chokepoint from BACI trade that travels by sea according to our mode heuristic, split between each country’s ports by where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest, and routed over our own sea network. It is an estimate, not a count of ships. It covers 99.9% of seaborne trade. The approach follows Verschuur, Lumma and Hall (Nature Communications, 2025). Data up to 2024.