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The strategically-located Port of Tanjung Pelepas is South-East Asia’s fastest-growing transhipment hub, and location of choice for many

Terminal velocity: PTP has six berths of 360m each in length

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) is located strategically at the confluence of major world shipping lanes, including trans-Pacific, Far East Europe, intra-Asia, South-East Asia and Australasian lanes.

The port began a three-month trial operation on 10 October 1999. In a dramatic move that changed the face of the entire transhipment business in South-East Asia, PTP secured Maersk Sealand as a strategic partner. The deal, which was finalised on 17 August 2000, saw Maersk Sealand buying 30% equity from PTP’s holding company, Seaport Terminal.

PTP has also been awarded the ‘Best Emerging Container Terminal Award’ by Lloyd’s List Mari-time Asia for two years in a row, in October 2000 and November 2001.

Terminal operations
PTP currently offers six berths of 360m each in length, thereby offering 2.16km of linear wharf length. Directly behind the berths is the port’s container yard, which is one of the largest container storage facilities in the region with 110,000 TEUs storage capacity. The terminal is currently equipped with 24 Super Post Panamax quayside cranes, of which 14 have an 18-box outreach catering to the world’s largest container vessels, while the other 10 have a 22-box outreach catering for the next generation of Super Post Panamax vessels.

The terminal operations are backed by a state-of-the-art information technology system with links to all port users. By synergising all of the port’s operations and communication centres, the IT network system facilitates a free flow of ‘real time’ information and provides near-paperless transactions between shipping lines, forwarders, shipping agents and the port – ensuring high productivity. Phase One handling capacity is 4.5-5m TEUs per annum.

Vital connections
Local cargo movement to major industrial estates is easily accessible with PTP’s 5.4km access road linked to the second Malaysia-Singapore expressway and the North-South highway, ensuring a linkage that runs all the way up to the Thailand border. Further adding to the port’s land, sea and air infrastructure support is the 31.5km rail link to PTP, directly linked to the national rail grid passing through Peninsular Malaysia from Singapore to Southern Thailand. With this rail connection linking the three countries, PTP’s plans of providing an effective distribution network are ensured.

PTP’s free-zone status and its more than 161 hectares of land reserved for distribution, logistics and warehousing activities, promises a ‘Distripark’ with activities ideal for consolidation, international procurement centre operations, regional distribution centres, and distribution services. Current global players with their warehouses within PTP Distripark are Maersk Logistics and Kenwood Logistics, together with some major Malaysian players such as Usra Distripark, Tiong Nam, MIEL and JP Logistics. With lines establishing their hubs at PTP, and with the goal of providing a fast-start at the Distripark, PTP provides flexibility to users in providing built-up warehouses for lease or bare land for sublease. An additional 242 hectares of land has also been reserved for industrial activities.

Volume developments and current services
PTP handled 418,218 TEUs during the year 2000. In the year 2001, the second year of operations, PTP exceeded its target to handle 2m TEUs in a single year by handling 2.05m TEUs. This tremendous growth has earned PTP the reputation of one of the fastest growing ports in the world. Last year the port also surpassed its target of 2.5m by handling 2.66m TEUs.

Maersk Sealand and Evergreen Marine Corp, the world’s two largest lines, have their regional South-East Asian hubs in PTP. Other lines include K-Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company and Safmarine. Feeder operators include MCC Transport, Bayswater, QC Container Line, Orient Express Line (OEL), Bengal Tiger Line (BTL), Bangladeshi Shipping Line (BSC) and HRC.

PTP has embarked on its Phase Two development, involving dredging and reclamation for an additional eight berths with physical construction of the first two by the end of 2003. The access channel will also be deepened and widened to cater for the next generation of container vessels.

Website: www.ptp.com.my

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