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The
Penang Port Commission (PPC) has completed
developing a database of maritime trade
movements to and from within Asean which is
among the key measures lined up under the Asean
Maritime Transport Roadmap.
Its Chairman, Tan Cheng Liang, said the main
objective of the Asean Maritime Transport
Roadmap was to promote progressive
liberalisation of maritime transport services in
Asean.
"We were entrusted by the Transport Ministry to
implement two measures out of a list of 20
measures and we had completed one of it (the
database) which is measure number five with
assistance from the Republic of Korea," she said
here Wednesday.
Tan witnessed the handing over of the database
by Ken Son and Moon Byung Kwan, delegates
representing Korea's Ministry of Land Transport
and Maritime Affairs, to Waheeda Mohd Idris, a
senior officer with Transport Ministry, here
Wednesday.
She said the completed database will be hosted
and administered by the Asean Secretariat once
the final report of the project is tabled for
approval at the 19th Asean Maritime Transport
Working Group (AMTWG) meeting.
"The AMTWG
meeting is to be held
in Kuala Lumpur in March 2010," she said.
Meanwhile, the other task for PPC, which is to
identify the areas in Asean's network of ports
requiring improvement in performance and
capacity, is in progress.
"We are still working on the second task and it
is progressing well," Tan said.
She also said she was confident that the
projects would result in outcomes that would
provide further impetus for the development of
Asean ports, and gear them towards an integrated
and competitive maritime transportation system
in ASEAN - Bernama
Source: The STAR
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