Westports to up cargo handling

Maiden Voyage: (from left) UASC Cluster operation manager Alexandar Cheong, UASC (S.A.G) vice-president Asia Cluster David SKillen, Gnanalingam and UASC Malaysia Sdn Bhd general manager Desmond Yong in front of MV Barzan in Westports.

PORT KLANG: Westports Malaysia expects to increase its cargo handling capacity to 13 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) from 11 million TEUs following the completion of its Container Terminal 8 (CT8) by mid-2017.

Its chief executive officer Ruben Emir Gnanalingam said in tandem with the construction of CT8, Westports was also building a new container gate for local cargo as well as other back of terminal support facilities.