Taiwan customs administration at the Port of Gdansk

26.01.2011

The Taiwan governmental mission for customs administration headed by Vice-Minister of Finance, Chang Sheng-Ford, arrived in Gdansk. On 25 January 2011 the delegates were hosted by the Port of Gdansk Authority SA and the leading Baltic container terminal - DCT Gdansk.

Taiwan - the Republic of China - is a country with the territory covering barely more than 10 percent of the territory of Poland, inhabited by the population of more than half of Poland's population. Taiwan is an island country widely open to the world and with thriving exports, which has successfully competed with China in terms of the economic expansion over the recent years. This country has remarkably numerous fast rail services, as well as air and sea connections with several deepwater port facilities, including the Port of Kaohsiung operating five container terminals with the capacity to accommodate 23 ships at the same time. Although the port's annual throughput reaches 10 TEU, its expansion plans are continued. In the previous year, the one with the record-high handling volumes amounting to 27.2 million tonnes, our two container terminals - the symbol of state-of-the-art shipping services - handled a total of circa... 0.6 million TEU. Regardless of this disproportion, the potential represented by the Port of Gdansk and its hinterland has proved of substantial interest to the Far East. It is thanks to the intensified cultural and business relations that Cultural and Business Bureaus have been opened in Taipei and Warsaw.