The Port of Kaohsiung (POK; Chinese: 高雄港; pinyin: Gāoxióng Gǎng; Wade–Giles: Kao1-hsiung2 Kang3; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ko-hiông-káng) is the largest harbor in Taiwan, handling approximately 10.26 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) worth of cargo in 2015.

The colonists of Dutch East India Company (VOC) arrived at Takau in 1620s and then began to develop the lagoon.

In the early Japanese era, the colonial government decided to undertake large projects with the intention to develop the port into a modern harbor.

At the southern side of the second port entrance, a museum and park currently stands nearby the recently established Intercontinental Terminal (No.

This museum describes the history and clearance of a significantly sized residential community which was situated nearby to the expanded port.

[3] The port is part of the Maritime Silk Road that runs from the Chinese coast towards the southern tip of India to Mombasa, from there through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean and there to the Upper Adriatic region of Trieste with its rail connections to Central and Eastern Europe.