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Kuantan Port | |
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Location | |
Location | Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. |
Coordinates | 3°58′33″N 103°25′40″E / 3.9757°N 103.4277°E |
Details | |
Built | 1979 |
Opened | 1980 (partial) 1984 (full) |
Operated by | Kuantan Port Consortium Sdn Bhd. |
Owned by | IJM Corporation Berhad (60%) Beibu Guld Holding (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. (40%) |
No. of berths | 19 |
Statistics | |
Website kuantanport |
Kuantan Port (Latitude 3°58'N, Longitude 103° 26'E) is a multipurpose port in the East Coast Region of Peninsular Malaysia, situated about 25 km to the north of Kuantan city and facing South China Sea.
Previously run by Kuantan Port Authority, it has been privatised since 1998 and is currently operated by Kuantan Port Consortium Sdn Bhd. [1] The port is part of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. [2] [3]
Type of Berth | Quantity of Berth | Total Length (Metre) | Draft (Metre) | Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) | Maximum Displacement Tonnes |
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Container | 3 | 600 | 11.2 | 35,000 | 45,000 |
Liquid Chemical | 3 | 720 | 11.4 | 40,000 | 53,000 |
Multi-purpose Berth | 4 | 725 | 11.2 | 35,000 | 45,000 |
Palm Oil Berth No.1 | 1 | 250 | 11.5 | 40,000 | 54,000 |
Palm Oil Berth No.2 | 1 | 150 | 8.0 | 6,000 | 8,000 |
Palm Oil Berth No.3 | 1 | 240 | 11.4 | 40,000 | 53,000 |
Mineral Oil | 1 | 150 | 8.0 | 6,000 | 8,000 |
MTBE | 1 | 240 | 11.4 | 40,000 | 53,000 |
Berth 5 | 1 | 18 | 5.0 | 10,377 | 16,832 |
Berth 6 | 1 | 118 | 7.0 | 12,000 | 17,800 |
Berth 1A | 1 | 70 | 8.0 | 6,000 | 8,000 |
Service Jetty | 1 | 140 | 4.0 | 4,500 | 6,000 |
Kuantan Port has containers handling equipment and machineries such as container gantry cranes, rubber tyred gantry cranes, reach stackers, container trailers and forklifts. It provides a container freight station of 9,600 square metres for the stuffing and unstuffing of containers and a container yard with 1,500 ground slots and 168 reefer points. Kuantan Port container yard offers one of the longest free storage period in Malaysia.
Kuantan - Kerteh Railway System (KKRS), a 75 km railway line, provides daily service between Kuantan Port and Kerteh's Petrochemical Complex.