Qualla: Port of Kaohsiung https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/8/port-of-kaohsiung-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Port of Kaohsiung https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung Port of Kaohsiung: Introduction https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung/ Photo credit Surmoer, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Dutch East India Company arrived at a lagoon called Takao in the 1620s and saw potential. Four centuries later, the Port of Kaohsiung handles approximately 10.26 million twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo annually, making it the largest harbor in Taiwan and one of the busiest container ports in the world. The transformation was neither smooth nor inevitable. Between the Dutch traders and the modern container cranes, the lagoon passed through the hands of Koxinga's maritime kingdom, the Qing Empire, the Japanese colonial government, and the Republic of China -- each regime dredging deeper, building higher, and pushing the harbor's capacity further. What began as sheltered water for fishing boats is now a link in the Maritime Silk Road stretching from China's coast to Trieste.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/8/port-of-kaohsiung-wp/wsj8-port-of-kaohsiung-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Port of Kaohsiung: A Lagoon Opens to the World https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung/ Photo credit Eric Deng, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the 16th century, villages dotted the seashore of what would become Kaohsiung, and the locals called their home Takao. The Dutch developed the natural lagoon as a trading post during their colonial era. The port evolved slowly through the Kingdom of Tungning under Koxinga and ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/8/port-of-kaohsiung-wp/wsj8-port-of-kaohsiung-a-lagoon-opens-to-the-world.mp3 0:06 2 full Port of Kaohsiung: Japanese Engineering and Wartime Destruction https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung/ Photo credit Yu-Jheng Fang, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Japanese colonial government saw Kaohsiung's harbor as a strategic asset and set about transforming it into a modern port through three construction phases. The first phase was completed in 1908, establishing the basic harbor infrastructure. The second followed in 1912. The t...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/8/port-of-kaohsiung-wp/wsj8-port-of-kaohsiung-japanese-engineering-and-wartime-destruction.mp3 0:06 3 full Port of Kaohsiung: Postwar Expansion and the Second Port https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung/ Photo credit SSR2000, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the war, Taiwan's new government restarted development. The most dramatic expansion came in 1975 with the construction of the "second port," achieved by breaking the land bridge between the districts of Siaogang and Cijin. This literal reshaping of the coastline doubled the...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/8/port-of-kaohsiung-wp/wsj8-port-of-kaohsiung-postwar-expansion-and-the-second-port.mp3 0:06 4 full Port of Kaohsiung: The View from Altitude https://qualla.com/port-of-kaohsiung/ Photo credit Kaoshiung panorama.jpg: Rubendene derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי, CC0. From the air, the Port of Kaohsiung is an unmistakable landscape of geometry and scale. Container yards spread in colored grids across reclaimed land. Gantry cranes line the berths like mechanical sentries. The two harbor entrances -- the original first port between Gushan and Ci...

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