AN expansion programme for the Sapangar Bay Container Port (SBCP) in Sabah, Malaysia, will raise its handling capacity from the current 500,000 TEU to 1.25 million TEU when the first phase of the project is completed in 2019. At present the port's annual throughput is 300,000 TEU.
The project to extend the berth length from 500 metres to 1.2 kilometres and expand the yard from 15 hectares to 60 hectares is to begin early next year.
The Malaysian government is to spend up to MYR800 million (US$190 million) on the expansion works, said Suria Capital Holdings, whose unit Sabah Ports has been made the implementing agency for the programme.
Seventy per cent Sabah's total container traffic passes through SBCP. "Growth has been on the uptrend at about five to six per cent annually since the privatisation exercise," Suria Capital said. SBCP was opened in 2006 after the privatisation of Sabah Ports in 2003.
Sabah deputy chief minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan earlier announced during a port visit that a master plan would be prepared this year to upgrade and expand the port's infrastructure to allow mainline operators to call.
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19 February 2016 - 20:48
Malaysia's Sabah's Sapangar box port to undergo expansion works in 2017
AN expansion programme for the Sapangar Bay Container Port (SBCP) in Sabah, Malaysia, will raise its handling capacity from the current 500,000 TEU to 1.25 million TEU when the first phase of the project is completed in 2019. At present the port's annual throughput is 300,000 TEU.
PORTS
19 February 2016 - 20:48
Malaysia's Sabah's Sapangar box port to undergo expansion works in 2017
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