Malaysian ports turn the corner

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Box throughput at Malaysian ports rose 10% to 3.79M TEU in the second quarter of this year compared to the previous quarter, reflecting a re...

Malaysian ports see box growth

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Malaysia’s container ports expect volumes to grow this year despite the global economic slowdown, although projections may have to be scal...

Sepangar problems

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Malaysia’s M$400M(US$116M) Sepangar Port in Kota Kinablu began operations on June 1, but is still having teething problems. Operator Sabah...

Malaysia looks to new plan

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Malaysian port operators have generally welcomed the government’s 9th Malaysian Plan on Seaports that calls for volume to be lifted from 1...

PTP Phase II on schedule

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The Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP)’s Phase II development programme is progressing on schedule with the first four rows of contai...

Hub ports jockey for position

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Options for shipping lines are expanding as PTP Tanjung Pelepas and PSA Corporation add more berths and other ports look for a slice of the ...

PTP on target

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In a statement PTP said that dredging and reclamation is nearing 75 percent completion. The dredging process will widen the port’s access ...

Northport farms out

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Northport Malaysia (NMB), formed from the merger of the former KCT and KPM terminals at Port Klang, has announced that its third container t...

Dotty ports

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Portrade Dotcom Bhd (PD) provides IT and management services to ports in Malaysia via the Internet....

Equipment suppliers all at SEA

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Growth plans at Malaysian ports have leading OEMs and local players looking at various ways to win business, but market politics do not make...

Malaysia eyes the top spot

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With its move from Singapore to PTP finally confirmed Evergreen becomes the second major carrier to turn its back on Singapore. However it i...

Malaysians to take Indian port stake

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The Malaysian government plans to take an equity stake in a proposed M$4.5 bill (US$1.2 bill) container terminal at Colachel in India's Tami...

Maersk Sealand to drop Singapore?

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Maersk Sealand is reported to be planning to switch all its Singapore linehaul calls to the neighbouring Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (...

A long march to reforms

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The IMF, the World Bank and the ADB say that the Asian economic crisis, which started with the collapse of the Thai Baht in mid-1997 and spr...

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