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A law
to reduce the number of free storage days for
containers at Port Klang to three days from five
has been postponed once again, as imports and
exports slumped amid the global economic
slowdown.
The Port Klang Authority (PKA), the regulator of
Northport and Westports, has set January 1 2010
as the new implementation date. The plan was
first mooted in 2002.
In a statement issued on Saturday, PKA said
after consultation with the two terminal
operators at Port Klang and port users, it has
decided to further postpone the implementation
of the three-day free storage period policy.
"Although the reduction in free storage was
already adopted in January this year, the
terminal operators were not penalising boxes
staying in the port for more than three days,"
PKA said.
It was announced earlier that the new free
storage period was going to be effective on July
1 2009, but in view of the current economic
situation it has been decided that a further six
months extension be considered.
PKA said in the meantime, a working committee
set up to look into the bottlenecks will
continue to work with the other logistics
players to improve the delivery system among all
the parties in the delivery chain in line with
the agreed standard operating procedures.
Source: NST
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