[China]Kaohsiung

Name: Kaohsiung Terminal 63/64
Total Area: 202,712m2
Length: 520m
Depth: -12m
Equipment:
G/C x 5
R/T x 8
S/C x 9
F/L x 4
Capacity:(Teu/Year) 1,000,000
2004Throughput:(Teu/Year) 850,781 

Kaohsiung is Taiwan's second-largest city. It is situated on the southwest coast of the island. The port also has a large fleet of fishing boats, and agricultural products are exported from Kao-hsiung by ship. Kao-hsiung is of strategic importance with its big naval base.

Kaohsiung is the major port through which most of Taiwan's oil is imported, which accounts for the large amount of heavy industry.

It is an export processing zone-producing aluminium, wood and paper products, fertilizers, cement, metals, machinery, and ships. With its harbor one of the four largest in the world, Kaohsiung is the center of Taiwan's shipbuilding industry, as well as home to a large ROC Navy base. Its subway system, and the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (KMRT), should be running in 2006.