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World Society Column: Port Klang
Source - Daily News
Wednesday, May 01, 2024 02:43
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"Port Klang", the 12th largest in the world and the second largest in Southeast Asia, after Singapore in terms of capacity, is planning to increase its capacity for 20-foot containers from the original 14 million containers per year to 27 million containers per year. Westports Holdings, the port's operator, will invest in such projects. The investment is an amount of 8,340 million US dollars (approximately 307,000 million baht).
Port Klang is the cargo transshipment center of Asia and is a popular way to enter the Southeast Asian market. It has a strategic location along the Malacca Strait, which gives the port a significant advantage due to its proximity to the main shipping routes of the region and the ability to accommodate large ships in natural deep-water harbors.
However, the port expansion has put pressure on several Malaysian government agencies, including the Ministry of Plantations and Commodities and the Ministry of Resources, to enhance surveillance of illegal log imports and "container replacement."
This Klang Port expansion project coincides with companies rebuilding their supply chains and diversifying investment away from China to reduce geopolitical risk. The project will ensure that improved piers will have capacity for economic growth.
Southeast Asia is also a destination for the "China+1" trade policy, which is a strategy to avoid investing in China alone and diversify business to other countries or create investment channels into production in promising developing countries such as India, Thailand, or Vietnam.
Over the past 20 years, many Western companies have invested mainly in China due to low production costs and a large consumer market within the country. The "China + 1" trade policy has been developed to address concerns about cost, safety, and long-term stability for businesses in China. The policy is also described as a "macro-level phenomenon."
Mr. Reuben Emir Gnanalingam, Group Managing Director of Westports Holdings, said that the expansion of Port Klang will begin operations this year and is expected to take more than 40 years to complete.
Incidentally, the Klang Port expansion project will include the process of filling in areas along the coast to increase the number of places to accommodate containers from the original 9 to 17 places.
Although Malaysia has faced increasing competition from neighboring countries such as Singapore and Thailand for more than 30 years, Malaysia still has an advantage. This is because many ports in the country are cheap in terms of cost per container.
In addition, the East Coast Railway construction project (ECRL), a distance of 665 kilometers, is expected to be completed in 2026 and will connect the port to the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula, making Klang Port one of the most important centers in Malaysia.
Last edited by Mongwin on 03/05/2024 7:06 am; edited 1 time in total
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