Tanjung Pelepas records 37% throughput growth of half year
PR News Service
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), reported today, it handled 1.6m TEU for the first half of this year, representing an increase of 37% on the same period in 2002.
PTP reported that the growth was partly due to establishment of a number of new Evergreen services at the port, and partly due to growth in the number of calls and local cargo movement of existing customers.
Phase Two Development of PTP is pushing ahead on time, and is expected to be completed in early 2004. Started in August last year, the phase involves dredging and reclamation for an additional eight berths and the initial construction of an additional two berths of 360m each.
This will approximately 1.5m TEU capacity to the port’s current capacity of 4.5m to 5m TEU.