‘Sabah port a prime location’

Strategic partners: Shafie (centre) promoting Sabah in Kobe, Japan, in a bid to attract Japanese investors.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is promoting its new port facility at the Lahad Datu Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) to Japanese companies since the Lombok-Makassar Straits shipping route is becoming increasingly popular.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, who is in Japan for a seven-day trade mission, said Japanese companies could take advantage of the eastern Sabah port as it was located in the trade path of the straits.