¹Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

hs_hou@kcg.gov.tw

　

²Institute of Traffic and Transportation National Chiao Tung University Taipei, TAIWAN

　

For developing Taiwan as a Hub Port, this study proposes each port's function and characteristics - its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. For integrated port development, this study suggests that the enforcement of policies for port operation, privatization, liberalization, and computerization should be expedited, then the efficiency of terminal operation and administration can be increased and modern port management system will be established, and compatibility in marine transportation can then be improved. Development of value-added products and a logistic center are recommended to grasp cargo source and economic benefits. Promotion of coastal shipping, inter-modal transport system and teleport should be completed to fully perform the integrated functions among different ports.

　

As for each port, Keelung Port serves the container shipping companies' needs to expand the outer sea wharves extension construction so as to become an assistant HUB port. Kaohsiung Port should expand deep-water wharves of container ships to accommodate the enlargement of the container vessel, relocate the existing berths to develop into a HUB port. Taichung Port should set up an industrial zone to unite large enterprises so that cargo sources and value-added can be increased. Hualien Port needs to improve its outer-breakwater to provide good port cargo throughput of the whole eastern area.

　

If all ports' future plans and the integrated port development can be done by time, Taiwan's ports will be able to serve as a Hub Port and as a good basis for the Asian-Pacific Operation Center.

　

　

¹Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

hs_hou@kcg.gov.tw

　

²Institute of Traffic and Transportation National Chiao Tung University Taipei, TAIWAN

　

Kaohsiung is an industrial harbor city. With the rapid economic growth, the industrial and metropolitan constructions develop prosperously. A lot of waste soil was created from construction, and large volume of harmless business wastes were produced. There is no appropriate disposal way of these wastes. How to deal with these wastes appropriately is the most important work of environment protection, therefore Talinpu reclaimed land is part of its function. Offshore Airport Plan will be the final goal.

　

As typhoon comes, Talinpu area is attacked by storm and flooding of seawater. Waste disposal site is established in Talinpu since 1980. It has been ten years since Talinpu Wastes Disposal Site was open for use in October 1990. It can be said that the area has the functions of waste disposal, keeping the nice appearance o the city, prevention of flooding by sea water, protection of the lives and properties of local citizens, and increase of urban area, creating the waterfront industry, and establishing an Offshore Airport for passenger and air cargo transportation, etc.

　

The new way of reclamation can also prevent pollution of sea region and match the recreational facilities and plans, offering for citizens a space for waterfront, recreation area and also provide an offshore airport for preventing noise pollution and waste air pollution from the local city area. Besides that, the Global Logistics i.e. Air and Sea transportation intermodal was built. All petro-chemical plants are moved toward offshore. The multi-functional solution of the plan is called "South Star Plan" of Kaohsiung.

　

　

¹College of Science and Technology, Nihon University Tokyo, JAPAN

kobayasi@civil.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp

　

²The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN

　

The Kobe earthquake in 1995 struck a reclaimed island designated "Port Island." The north half of the island suffered serious damage by liquefaction because countermeasure to liquefaction had not been practiced everywhere. Caisson quay walls of gravity type moved towards the sea with backfill soil due to the seismic inertia force and softening of foundation soil. The backfill soil behind the quay walls subsided because of the wall movement. Hence, port facilities on the backfill lost their serviceability, and distribution system around the district had been paralyzed.

　

From the numerical viewpoints, the lateral flow of liquefied ground is large-deformation problem, and geometrical nonlinearity should be taken into account. But, it is difficult in case of typical finite element method based on solid mechanics because of the amount of computation.

　

Towhata et al., proposed a method to avoid the difficulty by adopting some deformation assumptions and modeling the liquefied sand as viscous fluid. This method is applicable to the case like the damage of Port Island because this method includes a model of caisson movement. This method has been extended by authors, and three-dimensional analysis in time domain is possible. Therefore, in this paper, the three dimensional model is applied to the case of Port Island, and the resultant movements of the caissons were studied.

　

　

National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering Fisheries Research Agency Ibaraki, JAPAN

kysaeki@fra.affrc.go.jp

　

Operations at fishing ports consist of various tasks, including the landing and sorting of fish and repair of fishing equipment. In such work, carrying heavy loads was one of the greatest physical burdens on fishery workers. Cranes and trucks have lightened their burdens in recent years. However, many problems can still be seen in the work at fishing ports. The working environment, including work in close proximity to passing transport vehicles, exposure to wind and snow, and long hours of hard work in awkward postures, involves physical hardships and risks for fishery workers. Such a working environment needs to be improved.

　

Though improved working environments should always be a goal, there is little point in setting absolute goals. All that is required is a system in which the quality of a fishery port, as a workplace, is comprehensively evaluated primarily by the people working there, and serious problems found are connected to improvements with the assistance of administrative and research organizations. Such a system has been already proposed in the manufacturing and agricultural industries. For applying proposed system to operations at fishing ports, it is required to reconstruct systems by incorporating the characteristics of the fishing industry. For system reconstruction, data on actual working conditions obtained by observing people working at a fishing port, surveys on their attitudes, and human engineering analyses, that is, analyses of work schedules and working postures, are considered to be necessary.