The first batch of 100 prefabricated houses donated by China is scheduled to arrive at Kaohsiung Harbor in southern Taiwan early next week to help house displaced typhoon victims, an official said Sunday. 'The prefab housing will be loaded onto a vessel at Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province Monday evening, and it is scheduled to arrive at Kaohsiung Harbor around noon Tuesday,' said Ma Shao-chang, deputy secretary-general of the quasi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF). China offered to assist in Taiwan's rehabilitation operation last week after Typhoon Morakot wreaked havoc in certain parts of the island Aug. 7-9, particularly the southern counties of Pingtung and Kaohsiung. After an evaluation, Taiwan's government said it hoped China could provide 1,000 prefab houses to facilitate resettlement of typhoon victims. Technical details involved in the donation are being handled by the SEF and its Chinese counterpart -- the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) -- both of them quasi-official intermediary bodies founded by their respective governments to handle negotiations in the absence of official ties. Noting that assembling the prefab housing is a professional job, Ma said the Ministry of the Interior's Construction and Planning Agency (CPA) will send officials to take delivery of the cargo when the shipment arrives Tuesday. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Vice Chairman Liu Te-hsun said the CPA already informed Chinese authorities the specifications of prefab housing suitable for Taiwan. The Cabinet-level MAC oversees SEF operations. 'All the prefab hosuses will be distributed to typhoon victims in terms of their demand,' said Liu. Delivery of other relief supplies that China has offered Taiwan, including 10,000 blankets, 10,000 sleeping bags and 500 automated disinfecting machines, will come later, Liu said. 