The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) saw a 16% growth in volumes in the first half of the year and has switched to paperless billing to the reduce the amount of paper the terminal uses, Seatrade Asia online reports. In the first six months of the year PTP handled 3.7m teu up 16% on 2010. The port will be switching to paperless billing from 1 September, which it described as “timely” given the growth in business.
“We expect to handle about 7.5m teu of containers this year, a 16% increase from last year. Currently, we are generating somewhere around 4,000 invoices, or about 9,000 sheets of paper every month. Our paperless billing will save more than 100,000 sheets of paper per year. If these 100,000 sheets of paper were laid as an extension to each other, it would be as high as Mount Kinabalu,” said a PTP spokesperson.
“We expect to handle about 7.5m teu of containers this year, a 16% increase from last year. Currently, we are generating somewhere around 4,000 invoices, or about 9,000 sheets of paper every month. Our paperless billing will save more than 100,000 sheets of paper per year. If these 100,000 sheets of paper were laid as an extension to each other, it would be as high as Mount Kinabalu,” said a PTP spokesperson.