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Maritime access · partial record

Sea access and ports

The strait, the approaches and the ports through which Taiwan imports almost all of its primary energy and ships its exports — read as access and cover, never as a naval picture.

10 published markers 3 supply systems 1 operator

Évalué au
2026-08
Dernière revue
2026-10-03

ÉvaluationConfiance modérée

Context, not targeting. A system record names published markers and published operators and states dependencies at the level a published institution does. It carries no facility-level capacity, vulnerability, protection or repair detail; the schema has no field for any of it.

Carte de localisation — contours terrestres Natural Earth 110m (domaine public) ; 10 lieux que cette fiche nomme, aux coordonnées que le module publie déjà. Aucun itinéraire, aucune frontière, aucun contrôle ni aucune activité n’est tracé.

Ce qu’est ce système

Taiwan imports almost all of its primary energy by sea, with LNG the most time-critical component because it cannot be stored long; container shipping and the cables that land on the same coast run through the same waters. That dependence exists continuously, not only in a contingency.

The access layer the semiconductor cluster and the civilian economy rest on: cover, transit and the cables are read together because they fail together.

Confiance : modérée Au 2026-08Revu le 2026-10-03

Le système

Vue d’ensemble
The system is the Taiwan Strait and the Bashi Channel, the East China Sea and Philippine Sea approaches, the ports of Kaohsiung, Keelung and Suao, and the outlying islands of Kinmen, Matsu and Penghu. The energy-imports record carries the dependence — a gas security-stockpile requirement stepping from 7 days in 2019 to 14 in 2027, with holdings above 11 days stated in March 2026, coal held against a 30-day floor, oil at 90 days with more than 100 reported — and the maritime-trade-and-cables record carries shipping, insurance and connectivity. The shipping-and-insurance chain reads what happens to transit when war-risk premia move; the import-dependence and cable chains read what happens to civilian life.
Current state · as of 2026-08
As the energy-imports record last assessed it (August 2026): gas is the binding case — the largest share of generation, the shortest cover, and not warehousable the way coal and crude are.
Commodities and outputs
LNG and energy imports · Container shipping and the strait transit · Marine insurance and war-risk premia

Nœuds

The published markers that carry this system value, by the module’s own priority. A note is the system record’s; a marker without one is a member by its own tag.

Routes and operators

Supply systems running through it

  • Routage du commerce maritime et connectivité sous-marineGeneral trade · 8 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · named by the recordUne très grande part du transport maritime mondial passe par ici, tout comme la connexion de l’île à Internet.
  • Dépendance aux importations d’énergieFuel imports · 6 nodes · 2 documented disruptions · named by the recordUne économie industrielle avancée qui fonctionne avec un combustible arrivant par la mer, et qui détient onze jours de gaz, trente de charbon et quatre-vingt-dix de pétrole.
  • Le système d’approvisionnement en semi-conducteursGeneral trade · 7 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesLa dépendance industrielle la plus concentrée de l’économie mondiale, sur une île qui importe par la mer ses intrants et le combustible de son électricité.

Organisations that run it

  • TaipowerState enterprise · ActiveThe state generation and grid operator whose system serves demand concentrated on one plain — efficient, with poor resilience characteristics, and the subject of a ten-year hardening programme.

Dependencies and constraints

Each marked documented (a published source states it) or assessed (Vigil infers it and says so). The two are never drawn the same way.

Depends onDocumenté Confiance : élevée

Seaborne LNG, coal and oil. Almost all primary energy arrives by sea; LNG is the most time-critical because it cannot be stored long, and the stockpile requirement is a regulatory response to that fact.

Sources : MOEA Energy Administration — energy statistics and security stockpile requirements↗ · Taiwan Power Company — generation, coal stocks and reactor filings↗ · IEA electricity and energy-security analysis

Chaînes de transmission passant par ce système

Each step carries its own basis grade — Confirmed, Plausible exposure, Unconfirmed scenario — and a chain can only weaken from left to right.

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Évalué au — 2026-08 Dernière revue — 2026-10-03