Port of Kaohsiung

Port of Kaohsiung

The Port of Kaohsiung is the largest harbor of Taiwan, handling approximately 10 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) worth of cargo in 2007 [cite web |url=http://www.klhb.gov.tw/Html/H06/H060501.aspx |title=應用統計分析報告: 七港營運實績分析 |accessdate=2008-06-03 |publisher=Keelung Harbor Bureau |date= ] . The port is located at Kaohsiung City, surrounded by the districts of Gushan, Yancheng, Lingya, Cianjhen, Siaogang and Cijin. It is officially administrated by Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau, a division under the Ministry of Transportation of Executive Yuan, the central government of Republic of China.

History

The port was a natural lagoon before the people cleaned up it into a modern harbour. At the time of 16th century, some villages had already established on the seashore of the present-day Kaohsiung, which was called as "Takau" at that time. After the Dutch East India Company (VOC) arrived, these colonists began to develop this lagoon. The port, in which called as the "Takau Port" (打狗港), was grew up slowly in the Dutch Era, Koxinga Era, and the early Qing Dynasty.

In 1858, after the Qing Dynasty lost to the French and British in the Second Opium War, the Treaties of Tianjin was signed. According to the treaties, the Qing's government was asked for unlock five ports of Taiwan. As one of the five ports, the Takao Port was officially opened to the western traders since 1864. Afterward, the Qing's government lost Taiwan to Japanese in 1895.

In the early Japanese-ruled era, the colonist government decided a large project which intend to develop the port into a modern harbour. The Japanese built the port up by three stages, the first was lunch in 1908, the second lunched in 1912, and the third was stop half way after the World War II broken up. In the war time, the port destroyed the bombing of Allies.

After the war, government of Republic of China restart the development of the port. The "second port" was dug in 1975 by breaking the land bridge between Siaogang and Cijin.

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ee also

*Hahaseng
*Linhai Industrial Park
*China Steel
*CSBC Corporation

External links

* [http://www.khb.gov.tw/ Official website]


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