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The 80-minute flight across the Taiwan Strait was the first direct, daily cross-strait traffic since the end of the civil war in 1949 and another step in the improvement of relations between the sides.

"Domestic markets are generally doing a bit better and in the case of China, after a very weak performance in 2008, there has been a strong rebound in traffic within mainland China, as well as increased cross-straits traffic between China and Taiwan," Mr. Herdman said.

Five years behind schedule and the subject of contention between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and critics of his ambitious development plans, the Marmaray tunnel is expected to reduce Istanbul's legendary cross-Bosporus-strait traffic by 20% and open an uninterrupted rail corridor between trading giants Europe and China.

Seamen usually select popular routes according to navigational and hydrographical characteristics when passing through a strait with congested traffic.

There were protests from the shipping industry, who wished to continue to use the strait for ship traffic.

"There is no disruption to shipping traffic in the strait.

American officials calculate that the Tengiz oil will double tanker traffic on the strait in coming years.

As the only sea route between the oil-rich Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the Bosphorus is one of the busiest waterways in the world; more than 200 million tonnes of oil pass through the strait each year, and the traffic on the Bosphorus is three times that on the Suez Canal.

Leaving no room for doubt, a spokesperson for the U.S. Fifth Fleet made it clear on Wednesday that it would not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait, by responding to the Iranian provocation, "Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated".

Both exclaves, barely 14 miles apart, poke into the strait, guarding this chokepoint of naval traffic between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

But even before the Crystal Serenity began planning its voyage, the coast guard and local communities were raising concerns that the Arctic was not ready for the sharp rise in traffic through the Bering Strait.