Taiwan had earlier set its sights on offshore transshipment centers as a means of handling cross-strait processing and transshipment of goods, but the idea hasn't worked out so well. Other than international ports such as Shanghai and Ningbo, the only ports the PRC has opened to direct traffic with Taiwan are Fuzhou and Xiamen, and such sailings are limited to in-transit containers carried on vessels registered in third countries.
先前瞄準兩岸貨物加工、轉口為主的「境外航運中心」運作並不順暢，除了上海、寧波等國際港外，中共只開放廈門、福州供「轉口櫃」直航，來往的貨輪更限制為第三國籍。