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PTP will invest beyond 1,5 billion dollars in order to increase the traffic ability container of the port of Tanjung Pelepas
the handling ability will go up from 10,5 to 22,2 million container within 2030
July 1, 2016
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), joint venture participated to 70% from the malaysian MMC Corporation (MMC) and to 30% from Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk that the port manages malaysian of Tanjung Pelepas, harbour port of call become operating at the end of 1999 with the objective to become main a hub container in the Asian south-east place on the main East-West marine route and live competition with the port of Singapore ( of the 7 and 27 October 1999), it has announced the intention to invest beyond six billions of ringgit (1,5 billion dollars) in the arc of next the 5-15 years with the objective to increase the ability to traffic of the port.
Currently PTP manages 14 docks for a total of five linear kilometers of landings place. "Quickly - the harbour president of the company has announced, Dato' Sri Che Khalib Bin Mohamad Noh - the plan previews a general potenziamento, a renewal of our cranes of dock, the cranes to portal on rubber and the substitution of equipments currently in use by PTP in order to increase the current ability to traffic from the 10,5 million one teu 13,2 million teu per year. This - it has specified - will be followed by the performance of the phase 3 that is previewed will happen in 2018. The phase 3A and the 3B - it has explained - consist in six new docks of three kilometers of length that will allow us to elevate our ability to traffic to 22,2 million teu within 2030".
Last year the port malaysian has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 9,1 million teu, with a progression of +7.1% on 2014.
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The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), joint venture participated to 70% from the malaysian MMC Corporation (MMC) and to 30% from Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk that the port manages malaysian of Tanjung Pelepas, harbour port of call become operating at the end of 1999 with the objective to become main a hub container in the Asian south-east place on the main East-West marine route and live competition with the port of Singapore 
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