MTT buys slots from PIL to service Pasir Gudang and East Malaysia
2012 05 30
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MALAYSIA's MTT Shipping has made new links between Pasir Gudang and East Malaysia by taking slots from Singapore-based PIL's feeder units, Advance Container Line (ACL) and Malaysia Shipping Corp (MES).
The ACL/MES service offers connections to Kuching, Sibu, Miri, Labuan, Kota Kinabalu and Muara, said the Alphaliner report. The Pasir Gudang connections complements MTT's existing connections to these East Malaysian and Brunei ports from Tanjung Pelepas and Port Kelang.
MTT assumed most of Johan Shipping's former routes between West and East Malaysia after the Johan 2011 bankruptcy.
MTT has also taken in charge the newly-acquired 20-year-old 1,012- TEU MTT Kuching (from Rickmers). It is MTT's second vessel acquisition, following the purchase of the 1,022-TEU MTT Penang built in 1985) last December.
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