Huge potential in southern Thailand-Malaysia cross-border trade

Latest offering: Othman (second left) flagging off the 200th intermodal chartered train services at Trili Maju facility site in Butterworth. With him is Trili Maju chairman Mohamed Ali Abdul Samad (left) and Nawawi (third left).

SEBERANG PRAI: The cross-border trade between southern Thailand and Malaysia has the potential to grow about 400,000 20-ft equivalent unit (TEUs) of cargo per annum.

Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Othman Aziz said the current trade volume was 120,000 TEUs per year.