PUTRAJAYA: Israeli-based shipping company, Zim, needs to remove 4,000 transhipment containers that are still stranded in the country, especially at Port Klang, soon, says Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook.
This followed the Malaysian government's decision on Wednesday (Dec 20) to restrict and disallow the company's ships from docking at any port in the country with immediate effect.
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"All of these containers are handled by Zim. So when we take this action by prohibiting them from docking, this shipping company needs to contact other shipping companies to transport these containers out in the near future to their next destination," he said.
Loke said this at a press conference after the signing ceremony of the Lease Agreement between MRT Corp and the Federal Commissioner of Lands here on Thursday (Dec 21).
According to him, Zim will be given a little time to manage all the stranded containers as it involved various destinations.
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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, in a statement on Wednesday, announced that the government had decided not to allow ships flying the Israeli flag to dock in the country with immediate effect.
Additionally, any ship en route to Israel was prohibited from loading cargo at Malaysian ports.
Anwar stated that the government was confident that these decisions would not affect Malaysia's trade activities. - Bernama
