Shippers rerouted vessels as China began its most provocative military drills in decades around Taiwan, with at least one owner barring ships from transiting the Taiwan Strait.
The maneuvers, in response to US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan this week, are taking place in six areas surrounding Taiwan, and China advised ships and aircraft not to go near the regions. The drills began yesterday at noon and were set to last until Sunday.
Ships continued to travel through the Taiwan Strait yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While the data showed about 15 vessels in the drill
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai, fourth left, and representatives of local aquaculture and catering industries pose in front of ice sculptures at a news conference in the city’s Linyuan District yesterday to promote local aquacultural products, including groupers, which have been negatively affected by a Chinese ban on imports of the fish from Taiwan.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday asked the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to prepare an investigative report on safety measures in areas near high-speed rail tracks in Kaohsiung, after a demolition site incident knocked out power near a track in the city on Friday.
An electric tower operated by Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) was struck by the demolition of a Southeast Cement Corp building, leading to its collapse at 3:40pm.
The collapse cut off electricity to trains operated by Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC) and the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), affecting 79 high-speed rail trains and 30 TRA
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday led a ceremony for the launch of the first of four indigenous revenue cutter vessels commissioned by the Customs Administration.
The vessel, designated CP-10001, was ordered by the Customs Administration from shipbuilding company CSBC Corp, Taiwan, as part of the agency’s plan to replace older revenue cutters with locally built ships.
The first of four 100-tonnage class revenue cutters yesterday hit the water at CSBC headquarters in Kaohsiung’s Siaogang District (小港).
Also present at the launch were Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁), Minister of Finance Su Jain-rong (蘇建榮) and CSBC chairman Cheng Wen-lon (鄭文隆).
Since 2000, the Customs Administration
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday urged President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to convene a national affairs conference to discuss a responsible and viable electricity policy.
Widespread power outages on Thursday affected more than 5.49 million households and businesses nationwide.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs that evening said that an initial investigation by Taiwan Power (Taipower) showed that human error at Kaohsiung’s Hsinta Power Plant (興達電廠) led to the blackouts.
Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) on Friday said during a Legislative Yuan question-and-answer session that an outage would not occur again within the next year.
Chu said that Wang’s assurances