Cette étude suit le parcours de familles marchandes hadramies établies à Djedda, de 1850 à 1950. Appuyée sur des sources européennes, ottomanes et des archives privées, elle présente un groupe particulier, remarqué pour son rôle économique au Hedjaz, de la notabilité provinciale ottomane et de la diaspora hadramie. Son appartenance à la notabilité locale, remarquable dès les années 1850, tenait à l'adaptation des structures familiales à un réseau marchand étendu, au rôle de ces grands négociants dans la communauté hadramie, et leur intégration au milieu d'affaires de la cité. Djedda jouait alors le rôle de port de La Mecque et constitua une plateforme commerciale entre l'Inde, la côte africaine de la mer Rouge, et l'Égypte. Le parcours de ce familles issues du Hadramaout croise ainsi l'histoire économique et politique du Hedjaz sur un siècle. Il replace l'histoire de la province dans son contexte global, notamment dans celui des relations entre la Méditerranée et l'océan Indien. L'évolution de la composition du groupe des grands marchands hadramis de Djedda et de leurs activités accompagne les changements du cadre économique et politique du Hedjaz successivement province de l'Empire ottoman et émirat chérifien, royaume hachémite en 1916 puis région occidentale du royaume d'Arabie saoudite à partir de 1925. L'effacement, au cours des années 1930-1940, de ces grands marchands, et l'émergence d'hommes d'affaires eux aussi issus de l'immigration hadramie au Hedjaz, soulignent la réorientation du commerce et des migrations régionales, autant que le changement de régime politique et l'avènement des revenus pétroliers. / This work adresses the history of Hadrami merchant families settled in Jeddah from 1850 to 1950, a group that is still well-known for its economic role in the Hejaz and Saudi Arabia,. Built on private, Ottoman and European archives, it describes a specific group of the Ottoman provincial notability and of the Hadrami diaspora. As soon as the 1850s, their being part of Jeddah's notability was the result of three main factors : their success in adapting family agency to an extensive network of trade, their role in the local Hadhrami community, and their integration into the business group of the city. In the 19th century, Jeddah was Meccas harbor and a platform for trade between India, the East-African coast and Egypt. In this way, the history of these farnilies from Hadhramaut was closely related to the economic and political history of Hejaz. It brings back the history of the Hejaz in its global context, evidencing the connections between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Changes in these merchants' activities and in the composition of their group paralleled the changes in the economic and political situation of the Hejaz, which was successively a province of the Ottoman Empire and a Sharifian Emirate, the Hashemite Kingdom in 1916 and the western region the Saudi Kingdom from 1925 onwards. During the 1930s and the 1940s, the gradual disappearance of these traders from the economic elite of the country, and the emergence of other Hadrami business men, illuminate the impact of new directions of trade and regional migrations, that proved as important as the new political regime and the beginning of oil wealth.

Kaohsiung area has the excellent geographical position, eliminates has the deep water port which the transportation amount is among the best, also the international airport simultaneously has the shortest average distance with the neighbor country, not only the peripheral region correlation industry foundation is abundant, it really has the potential to develop "the Global Logistic Center" on behalf of Taiwan. But in the pass, Taiwan in both shore policy, the industrial policy, under the correlation law intriguing, creates the Kaohsiung double port area development to be unbalanced, also faces Mainland China and the Southeast Asia area, local city and so on and also South Korean Pusan¡¦s astringently challenge, therefore draining of the Kaohsiung double port competitive ability is becomes inevitably. Therefore, motive of this research, namely emphatically in: Kaohsiung has the sea and air double port condition, analyzes the region industry development and the global logistic tendency of, and establishes Kaohsiung to develop into the Global Logistic Center foundation.