Chen went to Kaohsiung to investigate and discovered that though port workers there had also fought against privatization, they lacked connections with the international labor movement. The workers and the port authority there were completely in the dark about the Neptune Jade.
陳界仁到高雄港訪查後，發現高雄碼頭工會雖然也曾抵制港口裝卸工作「民營化」，但由於工會缺乏與國際工運的聯結，碼頭工人與港務局對「海王星玉號」事件竟都渾然不知。