Posted on 21 June 2010. Tags: Basheer, Container Handling, Container Terminal, Containers, Conventional Cargo, Customer Relationship Management, Exports And Imports, Five Months, Foot Equivalent Units, Gala Event, Hassan, Managing Director, Quality Innovation, Quality Of Service, Sails, Service Quality, Shanghai China, Supply Chains, Transshipment
Northport (Malaysia) Bhd has emerged as winner of the Asian Freight and Supply Chains awards (AFSCA) 2010, beating seven other ports in the region.
The port was named the best container terminal in Asia for ports handling containers below 4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), the second time it has won the award.
At the AFSCA Award gala event in Shanghai, China, the port was chosen for its leadership demonstration, consistency in service quality, innovation as well as customer relationship management and reliability.
It was also cited for usefulness of its product range, container handling rates, timely and adequate investments, effective use of IT systems and also efficient turnaround of trucks delivering or picking up containers at the port.
Managing director Datuk Basheer Hassan Abdul Kader said Northport is delighted.
“The award serves to reinforce the industry’s perception of the unrivalled standard and quality of service and performance that we offer at the Northport.
“Northport has been consistent in enhancing its perfomance to meet high user expectations by focusing on good value for money” said Basheer Hassan in a statement.
Total traffic at Northport jumped to 1.37 million TEUs in the first five months of this year from 1.07 million TEUs for the corresponding period in 2009.
Traffic in indigenous container volumes consisting of exports and imports rose 21 per cent to 411,438 TEUs together with a 41 per cent increase in transshipment totalling 348,824 TEUs and gains of 3.11 million tonnes in the handling of conventional cargo.
The awards attracted more than 12,200 readers of the Hong Kong-based shipping publication Cargonews Asia to select best-in-class companies in 42 industry-specific category by polling.
By: btimes.com.my
Posted in KELANG
Posted on 24 August 2008. Tags: Berths, Cfs, Container Operations, Container Port, Container Vessel, Container Yard, Eaga, Hectare, Jetty, Maiden Voyage, Milestone, Panstar, SABAH, Sails, Shipping Agency, Spsb, Throughput Capacity, Transshipment Hub
Panstar V. PS001S’s maiden voyage to Kota Kinabalu Port on 28th March 2006 was well receive by Sabah Ports Sdn. Bhd. (SPSB). This was the first direct call by a container vessel from the Far East to Sabah which marked the beginning of another milestone in the shipping fraternity that augurs well for Sabah Ports Sdn Bhd and Sabah as a whole.
The vessel which sails direct from Hong Kong will be servicing weekly calls to Kota Kinabalu thus facilitating the company, DMM Shipping Agency to foster Kota Kinabalu as the hub for containers bound for other regions of Sabah, This fits very well into SPSB’s plans of making Kota Kinabalu Port at present, and later Sapangar Bay Container Port, the shipping and transshipment hub of BIMP-EAGA and the region.
Sapangar Bay Container Port, being built a cost of about RM400 million is scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2007. By then the container at Kota Kinabalu Port would be moved to Sapangar, leaving behind the non-container operations.
Sapangar Bay Container Port would have a 500 meters jetty with 12 meters depth alongside and two inner berths of 200 meters each. On shore facilities include a 15-hectare container yard and CFS, equipment. The annual throughput capacity is expected at 350,000 TEUs per annum.
By: Sabah Ports Sdn. Bhd.
Posted in SABAH