The Strait of Dover, located between southeastern England and northern France, connects the English Channel with the North Sea. The Taiwan Strait connects the East China Sea with the East Sea.
The UK's Office for National Statistics said the Strait of Dover and Taiwan Strait were the busiest of the six shipping routes between January 2022 and April 2024, with cargo ships accounting for half of ships in the former strait and 60% in the latter strait. Ships passing through the Suez Canal and Bab-Al Mandab Strait will begin to decrease from mid-December 2023.
The number of ships passing through the Suez Canal and Bab-Al Mandab Strait started to decline from mid-December 2023, with the Suez Canal seeing a 66% year-on-year (YoY) decrease in ship traffic in the first week of April this year, and the Bab-Al Mandab Strait showed a 59% decrease in the number of passages through the strait over the same period.
The Bab-Al Mandab Strait connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
Weekly passages through the Strait of Hormuz, which lies between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, from February to April this year showed a significant decrease compared to previous years, especially between weeks 5 and 10. , with an average decrease of 23%. volumes compared to the same week last year, mainly from passing tankers, an ONS release said.
Ship traffic around the Cape of Good Hope began to increase last December and throughout the first weeks of 2024, more than a doubling of the increase was observed in February 2023.
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