With him are (from left) PTP’s chief operating officer Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman, State Assembly Speaker Datuk Zainalabidin Mohamed Zin, Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Ghani Othman and PTP chairman Datuk Mohd Taufik Abdullah.

PTP, costing RM2.4 billion (Phase One), is equipped with some of the world’s most sophisticated communication, infrastructure and transport systems, and is poised to become a leading transshipment hub in the region.

The port in the south-western tip of Johor ranks among the country’s biggest infrastructure projects and affirms Malaysia’s ability to build a port of international standard