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The harbors of Kaohsiung and Keelung should not remain special administrative districts, independent of the two cities that provide them. A merger of the districts will accelerate the development of both the cities and the two international harbors. When there is less shipping, both harbors can and should release part of their land for multipurpose economic and recreational use.. The Port of Baltimore and the Fishermen’s Wharf in San Francisco supply good examples of such transformation..
The author, a former vice minister of transportation and communications, recommends that plans be mapped out for simultaneous economic development of both cities and harbors. Besides, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications must ease administrative restrictions to let the port authorities operate in a more independent way.
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