{"id":248,"date":"2018-07-06T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2018\/07\/06\/still-room-for-improvement-at-port-klang\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:20:00","slug":"still-room-for-improvement-at-port-klang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/asia\/still-room-for-improvement-at-port-klang\/","title":{"rendered":"Still room for improvement at Port Klang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are not 100% there yet,\u201d Capt K Subramaniam, general manager of Port Klang Authority told<em> Port Strategy<\/em>. \u201cWe have to improve all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capt\u2019s Subramaniam\u2019s \u2018back to basics\u2019 view is that other ports are catching up with Klang, especially in Indonesia, which he said would be a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<p>Among the issues he flagged were the need for Port Klang to hold on to more of its locally-produced cargo and not see it moved by other ports. This required it and other ports to say on top of dredging needs and dredge deep to 18.5 metres to stop delays.<\/p>\n<p>The other issue was digitisation and the need to press on with it. \u201cI don\u2019t think we are entirely paperless,\u201d he said of Port Klang. Another issue is trade practices which \u201chave to be improved\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>While the 2014 introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) saw Malaysia losing bunkering to Singapore, other concerns include issues such as container deposits and damage claims, as well as surcharges. \u201cThese are the areas we need to work on in the next few years,\u201d he told the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s Port Klang needs to improve in an increasingly competitive environment, the 16th ASEAN Ports and Shipping Conference in Johor Bahru was told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}