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Never
have importers and exporters in
Malaysia, shipping via Port Klang,
been offered such a wide range of
shipping services.
“The
range of services link Port Klang
with every continent and nearly
all major ports in the world
directly. Shippers are spoilt for
choices,” said the general
manager of Port Klang Authority,
Datin Paduka O C Phang.
She
said there are for instance 17
sailings per week from the two
container terminals at Port Klang
to major European ports and four
sailings per week to major ports
in North America.
“Direct
services also link Port Klang to
new markets in S America, China,
the Indian sub-continent, the
Mediterranean and Australia,”
Phang added.
The
general manager said it was not
just the increase in mainline
services that has dominated the
growth of shipping services at
Port Klang in the last two years.
“We
have witnessed even a more
spectacular development in the
expansion in the network of
regional feeder services. At no
time was Port Klang linked
directly with so many ports in the
region. In fact we have
established a very comprehensive
feeder network with all 10
countries in the Asean,” she
said in the latest issue of PKA
newsletter, Gateway.
Phang
said the speed with which the
shipping lines have routed direct
calls at Port Klang indeed speaks
volume of the confidence these
lines have shown in the emergence
of Port Klang as the National Load
Centre and Regional Transhipment
Hub.
She
noted that Port Klang has not only
sustained a high growth in the
total container throughput handled
in the last five years, but in the
last two years “we have emerged
as a leading transshipment port in
the world – an accomplishment
that would have been considered
impossible four years ago”.
“I
hold the contributions made by
these shipping lines in high
regard and am confident they would
not only continue to call at
Malaysia’s premier gateway port,
but also further expand their
services, in particular,” she
commented.
Noting
that transshipment holds
considerably prospects for the
growth of the port in the years
ahead Phang said, Port Klang has
shown to these lines that it is
the most competitive transshipment
port in the region.
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