Taiwan Strait
230 vessels/day
−0.48% day
Between mainland China and Taiwan — roughly 40% of the world’s container traffic passes through, and the flashpoint of any US–China confrontation.
Nov 8 · 229.9 vessels/day · −4.2% vs the window’s open
the numbers80
| when | value | change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21 | 240.0 vessels/day | |
| Aug 22 | 240.6 vessels/day | +0.2% |
| Aug 23 | 236.6 vessels/day | −1.7% |
| Aug 24 | 241.4 vessels/day | +2.0% |
| Aug 25 | 239.0 vessels/day | −1.0% |
| Aug 26 | 221.0 vessels/day | −7.5% |
| Aug 27 | 194.1 vessels/day | −12.2% |
| Aug 28 | 189.0 vessels/day | −2.6% |
| Aug 29 | 194.0 vessels/day | +2.6% |
| Aug 30 | 207.3 vessels/day | +6.9% |
| Aug 31 | 209.3 vessels/day | +1.0% |
| Sep 1 | 218.1 vessels/day | +4.2% |
| Sep 2 | 231.4 vessels/day | +6.1% |
| Sep 3 | 254.7 vessels/day | +10.1% |
| Sep 4 | 258.6 vessels/day | +1.5% |
| Sep 5 | 252.4 vessels/day | −2.4% |
| Sep 6 | 244.1 vessels/day | −3.3% |
| Sep 7 | 241.3 vessels/day | −1.1% |
| Sep 8 | 242.3 vessels/day | +0.4% |
| Sep 9 | 243.6 vessels/day | +0.5% |
| Sep 10 | 241.9 vessels/day | −0.7% |
| Sep 11 | 232.0 vessels/day | −4.1% |
| Sep 12 | 234.3 vessels/day | +1.0% |
| Sep 13 | 229.4 vessels/day | −2.1% |
| Sep 14 | 224.7 vessels/day | −2.0% |
| Sep 15 | 217.1 vessels/day | −3.4% |
| Sep 16 | 214.9 vessels/day | −1.0% |
| Sep 17 | 218.0 vessels/day | +1.4% |
| Sep 18 | 225.7 vessels/day | +3.5% |
| Sep 19 | 222.1 vessels/day | −1.6% |
| Sep 20 | 222.7 vessels/day | +0.3% |
| Sep 21 | 226.0 vessels/day | +1.5% |
| Sep 22 | 226.9 vessels/day | +0.4% |
| Sep 23 | 228.1 vessels/day | +0.5% |
| Sep 24 | 230.0 vessels/day | +0.8% |
| Sep 25 | 229.0 vessels/day | −0.4% |
| Sep 26 | 233.0 vessels/day | +1.7% |
| Sep 27 | 232.3 vessels/day | −0.3% |
| Sep 28 | 233.6 vessels/day | +0.6% |
| Sep 29 | 236.4 vessels/day | +1.2% |
| Sep 30 | 239.3 vessels/day | +1.2% |
| Oct 1 | 238.4 vessels/day | −0.4% |
| Oct 2 | 236.6 vessels/day | −0.8% |
| Oct 3 | 231.9 vessels/day | −2.0% |
| Oct 4 | 233.0 vessels/day | +0.5% |
| Oct 5 | 229.7 vessels/day | −1.4% |
| Oct 6 | 228.3 vessels/day | −0.6% |
| Oct 7 | 226.1 vessels/day | −1.0% |
| Oct 8 | 223.9 vessels/day | −1.0% |
| Oct 9 | 226.9 vessels/day | +1.3% |
| Oct 10 | 228.0 vessels/day | +0.5% |
| Oct 11 | 229.9 vessels/day | +0.8% |
| Oct 12 | 237.0 vessels/day | +3.1% |
| Oct 13 | 235.4 vessels/day | −0.7% |
| Oct 14 | 235.7 vessels/day | +0.1% |
| Oct 15 | 235.9 vessels/day | +0.1% |
| Oct 16 | 232.4 vessels/day | −1.5% |
| Oct 17 | 229.6 vessels/day | −1.2% |
| Oct 18 | 227.3 vessels/day | −1.0% |
| Oct 19 | 223.4 vessels/day | −1.7% |
| Oct 20 | 229.4 vessels/day | +2.7% |
| Oct 21 | 220.9 vessels/day | −3.7% |
| Oct 22 | 199.1 vessels/day | −9.9% |
| Oct 23low | 171.4 vessels/day | −13.9% |
| Oct 24 | 188.6 vessels/day | +10.0% |
| Oct 25 | 190.0 vessels/day | +0.7% |
| Oct 26 | 193.6 vessels/day | +1.9% |
| Oct 27 | 197.6 vessels/day | +2.1% |
| Oct 28 | 213.3 vessels/day | +7.9% |
| Oct 29 | 235.0 vessels/day | +10.2% |
| Oct 30high | 261.6 vessels/day | +11.3% |
| Oct 31 | 246.3 vessels/day | −5.8% |
| Nov 1 | 247.0 vessels/day | +0.3% |
| Nov 2 | 244.7 vessels/day | −0.9% |
| Nov 3 | 235.3 vessels/day | −3.8% |
| Nov 4 | 232.4 vessels/day | −1.2% |
| Nov 5 | 233.1 vessels/day | +0.3% |
| Nov 6 | 235.0 vessels/day | +0.8% |
| Nov 7 | 231.0 vessels/day | −1.7% |
| Nov 8latest | 229.9 vessels/day | −0.5% |
Lately
Xi said Taiwan's reunification must happen because history cannot be stopped, notably without mentioning force, and Taipei rebuffed him. Nothing reported in the fortnight describes an exercise, a closure or a storm in the strait, so none of it accounts for the traffic.