Northport Distripark Sdn Bhd (NDSB) (Klang)

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  Website for this facility is: http://www.northport.com.my/news.php?news_id=26 Northport's Distripark a good source of growth 20 March, 2006 Star Maritime EFFORTS by Northport (Malaysia) Bhd to integrate its port services by broadening its product base into providing logistics-related services have yielded handsome dividends. Leveraging on its excellent shipping and intermodal connectivity, the port operating company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Northport Distripark Sdn Bhd, has made strong inroads into the value-adding services offered at its distripark in Northport in Port Klang. The distripark handled a total of a 136,727 TEUs last year, which is an increase of 4.2% over the volume of containers handled the previous year. The expanding role of the 40ha Distripark is pushing Northport up the value chain rapidly and is complemented with 12 units of warehouses , totalling 1 million sq feet space. Disclosing this. Northport managing director/chief executive officer Datuk Basheer Hassan said the expansion of the value-added services by the distripark was critical in further strengthening the role of the port in the inter- national trade of the country. "Invariably too, the new source of growth also represents positive growth drivers for the company in the years ahead. "With the inherent advantage of Northport, that is linked to more than 300 ports worldwide, the location of our distripark within the commercial zone of Port Klang, a competent work- force, a high level of IT application and a competitive port pricing, we have been able to transform the logistic distripark into a cargo hub centre for regional distribution activi- ties," he said. Basheer said Northport's efforts to integrate its core services with the value-added logistics services as part of their response to the changing functionalities in the transport and logistics pipeline have yielded positive results. He noted that the distripark's successes could be attributed to several lead logistics players and cargo consolidators setting up base at Northport. In 2005, Kuehne and Nagel relocated its multi-country consolidation traffic services to its new cargo hub located at Northport. Currently Northport is used as the cargo hub by Kuehne and Nagel to rework its Eastbound, Westbound and Regional Distribution containers. Several leading 3PL (Third Logistics) players, lnternation Consolidators and Freight. Forwarders are using Northport as the load center, who among others include NYK Logistics, Quanti Freight, Nistrans, Globelink,Freight Management and lnterocean Services, who are generating cargo volumes. In September, Clark Shoes International, working in strategic alliance with NYK Logistics, s using Northport Distripark as its regional consolidation and distibution centre for value adding activities such as bar-coding scanning, pack, sorting and labeling prior to re export. Looking ahead at the prospects, Basheer said with the liberalistation in the automotive sector under the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA), exponential growth in volume of cars import, export and re-export through Port Klang in CBU forms is expected to increase further. He said leading carmakers are expected to capitalize on AFTA to assemble the various car models in the Asean market to reap economies of scale. UMW Toyota has also nominated Northport as its discharge port and staging area for 600 units of import, export and re-export cars per month via Northport that now records an average of 15 ro-ro (roll on roll off) ship calls monthly. Total car throughput projected for Northport this year is expected to exceed 120,000 units per year.

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