Penang Port Case Study

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In malaysia, Penang Port is the strategical geographical location. Penang Port has a good network with Thailand and Indonesia and also know as the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT). Malaysia has good network with Thaialnd and Indonesia. (Asean Ports Association Malaysia, 2010), Penang Port can be positioned as a regional transshipment hub and upgraded to be one of the major container ports in the Bay of Bengal. The figure below show the map of IMT-GT. FIGURE1.3 Map of Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
1.2.1 Thailand-Malaysia

(Ruth Banomyong), Thailand mostly exports agricultural products while Malaysia exports industrial goods to Thailand. Thailand exports more than its imports via Malaysia with
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Berths in the Butterworth side can be accessed smoothly via toll roads, Butterworth Outer Ring Road (Route E17) and Butterworth-Kulim Expressway (Route E15). At the Butterworth side, there is a frequently railway freight transport service by KTM Kargo on the rail tracks of the Malayan Railway. Currently twelve round trips of container trains are operated between Butterworth and the Malaysia-Thailand border, Padang Besar. George Town in Penang Island is linked with the mainland by 6-lane road called Penang Bridge and with a ferry service crossing the Selatan Straits. The capacity varies but on average ferry can carry around 300 passenger and 30 cars each …show more content…
Penang Port located strategically in the Strait of Malacca. This passage is one of the busiest passages in world. Besides, Penang is one of the hub international trades in Malaysia. So, it can enhance the competitiveness of local companies by strengthening business relationship with foreign companies in a Free Trade Zone. The successful of port also depend to the industrial parks. If a port design far away from the production center, the accessibility to each other is lacking. Thus, to design a port, port operator should think the future of the port as being to be the busiest port in the

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