Fuel imports
Energy import dependence
An advanced industrial economy running on fuel that arrives by sea, holding eleven days of gas, thirty of coal and ninety of oil.
Conflict coverage · Taiwan Strait
Context, not targeting. These records describe strategic dependence and documented disruption history. The schema has no fields for capacities, schedules, convoy composition, escort arrangements, storage or facility layout.
Supply systems3 systems Taiwan Strait runs on, with 8 documented disruptions between them. Dependence is the strategic fact — a corridor matters because there is no substitute for it.
General trade
Maritime trade routing and undersea connectivity
A very large share of world shipping passes through here, and so does the island's connection to the internet.
General trade
The semiconductor supply system
The most concentrated industrial dependency in the world economy, on an island that imports its inputs and its electricity fuel by sea.
What the nodes are notQualifiers the records themselves carry. A node named on a corridor is not necessarily a working one — several are proposed, closed, seasonal or legacy, and each says so in the record's own words.
- Kaohsiung — Taiwan's principal southern port and the largest single maritime gateway for bulk imports.
- Keelung — The northern port serving the Taipei region.
- Taichung — Central-west coast, and one of the island's major industrial and import nodes.
- Taiwan Strait — The western approach through which a large share of arriving traffic passes.
- Bashi Channel — The southern approach from the South China Sea and the Pacific.
- Suao — North-eastern port, and the clearest eastern-side maritime access point.
Maritime trade routing and undersea connectivity
- Kaohsiung — Taiwan's largest port and one of the world's significant container handlers.
- Suao — North-eastern access, on the Pacific side rather than the strait side.
- Taiwan Strait — The western corridor, shared by commercial traffic and reported military activity.
- Bashi Channel — Southern connection between the South China Sea and the Pacific, and a major commercial and cable corridor.
- Miyako Strait — Northern channel; the alternative routing for traffic avoiding the strait.
The semiconductor supply system
- Hsinchu Science Park — The northern anchor of the cluster and the module's published marker for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
- Taichung — Central-west industrial node, part of the same manufacturing corridor.
- Tainan — The southern manufacturing node.
- Kaohsiung — Principal southern port for inbound materials and outbound freight.
- Keelung — Northern port serving the Taipei and Hsinchu region.
- Taipei — Administrative and air-freight hub; high-value chip product moves by air rather than sea.
- Bashi Channel — Southern maritime approach for inbound materials and outbound bulk.
Evidence and grading
- Scope
- These records describe strategic dependence and documented disruption history. The schema has no fields for capacities, schedules, convoy composition, escort arrangements, storage or facility layout, and the alternatives section describes whether redundancy exists — never which route to use.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.