Yet because shipbreaking is a labor-intensive enterprise, rising labor costs in Taiwan cause Chinese shipbreaking companies to feel competition from rivals in Korea and Singapore. The efficiency of Taiwan's over 10,000 well-trained workers compensates for the high cost of labor, Wang maintains.
拆船是高雄最具代表性的工業之一，卅年來，培養了一萬名以上熟練、勤奮、效率高的拆船工人。這也是我國在工資不斷上漲，又面臨韓國、新加坡的競爭壓力時，仍能穩居冠軍寶座的主因。