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.
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 |
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.