Port Klang Authority plans new formula on feeder incentives
Port Klang Authority (PKA) has decided to withdraw its scheme to provide incentives to feeder operators linking Port Klang to regional ports, with effect from this year, the Business Times reported.
It will, however, still pay out the monetary incentives due to operators for the year 2007. For the year 2008, though, feeder incentives will be based on a new formula for qualified operators. The new formula was not specified.
The feeder incentive scheme was developed and introduced by the PKA in 2000 as part of an overall strategy to further strengthen Port Klang as a national load centre and a regional hub port.
Selected local and regional feeder operators and landbridge operators get a rebate of US$5.76 for a 20-ft container and US$10.08 for 40-ft container sent through Port Klang as well as a 10 percent discount on marine charges such as pilotage and tug boat services by the respective terminals, Northport and Westports, under the old feeder incentive scheme.
While the idea had been mooted that the costs of incentivising feeder operators be transferred to terminal operators, Northport and Westports, a PKA official told Business Times that feeder and terminal operators have instead been left to negotiate their respective terms.
The feeder incentive scheme has been suspended since 2008.
It will, however, still pay out the monetary incentives due to operators for the year 2007. For the year 2008, though, feeder incentives will be based on a new formula for qualified operators. The new formula was not specified.
The feeder incentive scheme was developed and introduced by the PKA in 2000 as part of an overall strategy to further strengthen Port Klang as a national load centre and a regional hub port.
Selected local and regional feeder operators and landbridge operators get a rebate of US$5.76 for a 20-ft container and US$10.08 for 40-ft container sent through Port Klang as well as a 10 percent discount on marine charges such as pilotage and tug boat services by the respective terminals, Northport and Westports, under the old feeder incentive scheme.
While the idea had been mooted that the costs of incentivising feeder operators be transferred to terminal operators, Northport and Westports, a PKA official told Business Times that feeder and terminal operators have instead been left to negotiate their respective terms.
The feeder incentive scheme has been suspended since 2008.