Even Evergreen Group chairman Chang Jung-fa admits, "We've been through four or five economic downturns, but I've never seen it quite this bad before." The group's sea and air freight businesses have both fallen off by 30 %.
享譽國際的長榮集團總裁張榮發都承認：「歷經四、五次景氣不好，沒碰到像今天這樣（海運、航空貨運已衰退百分之三十）。」