Thus, three years later it was named a Special Municipality--a city under the direct jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan. As the result of a 12-Year Expansion Plan which began in 1958, Kaohsiung Harbor is now one of the world's ten largest harbors, boasting over eighty docks and the largest containership terminal in the Far East. Two-thirds of the raw material and manufactured goods which enter and leave Taiwan pass through Kaohsiung.
卅年後的今天，高雄港已成為世界第五大貨櫃中心、第十一大港，擁有八十幾個碼頭，國內三分之二的物資與貨品由此進出口。