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Northport (M) Bhd bagged The Best Container
Terminal Award (Asia) at the Asian Freight and
Supply Chain Awards 2009 held in Hong Kong
recently.
Northport, a multi-purpose terminal, was
selected for the award from a list which
included other top container terminals in Asia.
The selection was based on a list of criteria,
which included crane productivity, timely and
adequate investment in new terminal
infrastructure to meet future demand, effective
use of information technology and efficient
turn-around of trucks delivering and picking up
containers.
Northport, which handled three million
twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last year,
offers one of the widest shipping connectivity
among ports in Malaysia with about 123 container
shipping lines linking it to some 300 ports
worldwide.
Managing director Datuk Basheer Hassan Abdul
Kader said in a statement that Northport was
committed to maintaining high performance and
productivity because leading shipping lines that
called at the port required standards comparable
with other major global ports to which they were
linked.
Last year, 81 shipping lines as well as 44
conventional and 502 container vessels made
about 8,000 ship calls at Northport.
On the impact on the global economic downturn,
Basheer said container cargo through Northport
dropped 15% (year-on-year) in the first quarter
of this year.
Northport is one of the major hubs in Malaysia
for exporting cargos and this moderate decrease
was within expectation.
Source: STAR MARITIME
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