The Ministry of Transportation and Communications announced on 30 April that the Port of Kaohsiung, which ranked as high as third in the world in terms of cargo handled in the 1990s, had slipped to eighth place in 2007 after being surpassed by Rotterdam and Dubai.
4 月 30 日交通部公布 2007 年的全球貨櫃港貨櫃量排名，曾經在 1990 年代高居世界前 3 大港的高雄港，又被荷蘭鹿特丹港與阿拉伯大公國杜拜港超越，落至第 8 名的新低點。