The Port of Kaohsiung is the biggest port of Taiwan. Because South Taiwan is full of industries, the port of Kaohsiung ranked world number three. And as the production industry moved to Mainland China, the port of Kaohsiung regressed to the sixth container harbor in the world in 2008. The president, Ma Ying-jeou, elected in 2008, proposed that the port of Kaohsiung would become Eco-port in the future. There are many migratory birds visiting the port of Kaohsiung every April and May. This research referred to the development module in other countries¡¦ eco-ports, and tried to do the feasibility study on the development of Eco-port Kaohsiung. The method includes documents study, expert interview, sites investigate and sum up. This research hopes to let the port of Kaohsiung become the first Eco-port of Taiwan. And let the human development and ecosystem conservation coexists, reach the win-win situation.

Develop rapidly day by day along with economic trade system in the world, our country continuously looks for economic trade system and the way of improvement of system, with this promote our country is in the global economic trade system of competition ability. The region in Taiwan belongs to an island type nation in Pacific Asia region, it mainly trades contacts and import and export homework to still regard sea transportation conveyance as principle, and past results of the port homework and operation role also seem to be more important. Continuously developing in newly arisen port in all countries now is rising, how face port to quickly change and circulating of each industry trade, will be the main topic that promotes our country competitive advantage. Ports run by private capitals is now the world trend. This research summed up the future development of every international business port in Taiwan, and took Kaohsiung port as an example to explore the effects and achievements after the implementation of free trade zone. Because the policy of free trade zone has been implemented for a period of time in the neighbor countries of Pacific Asia, this study aimed to explore the definition of free trade zone as well as compare the similarities and differences of its implementation in other free trade zones in the world. According to the characteristics of free trade zone establishment, this research also analyzed the superiority and inferiority which Kaohsiung port encountered at the moment. Related strategies and suggestions were provided to enhance Kaohsiung port¡¦s competitiveness in Pacific Asia region based on the implementation and outcome of Kaohsiung Free Trade Zone. The findings were discussed and draw a conclusion as follows: 1) Kaohsiung port zone should develop the character of outside custom inside territory and create re-export business due to its limit interior region. 2) Accelerate to develop outside port zone, and set up value-added logistics port. 3) Cultivate professional sales managements; enhance effects on attracting and spreading business iii 4) Promote One-stop Window (Customer Service) to circulate goods freely inside the zone.

For the current trend of global planning and management, free trade port district can help industries to manage global marketing. In the meantime, it can develop economics and also enterprises. Taiwan government promote the policy of free trade port district in order to cooperate the project:¡¨Challenge 2008¡GGovernment Development Plan¡]2002¡Ð2007¡^¡v. To use Taiwan¡¦s location and also manufacturing advantage, the government set into the free trade port district policy which can develop international physical distribution business. The free trade port district of Kaohsiung harbor has been started since Jan 2005. There are automatically security system, information platform which can connected all computers from related departments. In this research, we found there are still some problems such as no suffice space or difficulty to extend which caused limitation for new enterprises or industries. A lot of problems which cased the difficulty for scale economy and cybotaxis benefit. Kaohsiung harbor hope to be the pivot of physical distribution in Asia so it should continue to develop space and cooperate the needs from enterprises or industries. To keep improve the laws and regulations in order to smooth all operations procedure in Kaohsiung harbor. From this paper, it can be reference for free trade port district development strategy.