PTP again wins Best Emerging Container Terminal Award
Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 (Bernama) - The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), South East Asia's fastest growing transhipment hub, created history again by winning the prestigious "Best Emerging Container Terminal Award" for a second time in a row.
PTP won the award based on its phenomenal growth in volume, despite the economic slowdown and the ability to maintain high service level and productivity, stated the organizers for the award.
Held in Hong Kong, the third Lloyd's List Maritime Asia Awards 2001 is organised by Lloyd's List Maritime Asia, a trade journal published by the renowned shipping daily, Lloyd's List.
More than 500 guests attended the event from the international shipping and maritime community, PTP said in a statement here Thursday.
Readers of the trade publication were asked to vote for the top performers in 10 maritime-related categories, including Best Terminal, Best Main Line Operator, Best Intra-Asian Operator and Best Ship Finance Bank, among others.
The three companies or organisations with the highest number of votes in each category proceeded to the finals, where an international panel of judges decided on the eventual winner in each category.
The final three ports selected for the "Best Emerging Container Terminal Award" category were PTP, Fuzhou Container Terminal Limited, China and Vietnam International Container Terminal (VICT), PTP said.
PTP, officially opened in January 2000, won the same award last year where the award ceremony was held in Singapore. PTP is the first port in Malaysia to win the award.
On winning the prestigious award, Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman, PTP's Chief Executive Officer was quoted as saying that "to win an award is only the first step and this PTP did last year.
Since then, PTP has made significant improvements in productivity and efficiency. The award this time around is recognition of the high efficiency and growing volumes at PTP," he said.
Only in its second year of operations, PTP has handled 1.6 million twenty-equivalent-units (TEUs) from January to October 2001.
PTP was initiated in March 1995 following a privatisation agreement with the government of Malaysia that set in motion the development of PTP.
In a dramatic move that changed the face of the entire transhipment business in South-east Asia, PTP attracted Maersk Sealand's entire transhipment hub to PTP.