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Last Updated: Sep 25th, 2006 - 11:36:04 |
PORT KLANG: MISC Bhd aims to tap the growing demand for Halal products in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent through its latest liner service, MISC Halal Express.
“The Halal Express service will leverage on MISC Integrated Logistics Sdn Bhd’s halal supply chain, utilising its warehouse and cold storage facilities in Port Klang and its distribution centre in Jebel Ali as our main source of cargo for the service,” MISC liner business unit general manager Abdul Hamid Nazardin told reporters after the launch at Northport yesterday.
He said the new service aimed at providing exporters and importers with a complete end-to-end halal compliant supply chain with fast transit times for sensitive refrigerated cargo.
The weekly service would link Port Klang and Singapore to Colombo, Jebel Ali in Dubai, Dammam in Saudi Arabia and Karachi, he added.
MISC Halal Express will utilise four 1,200 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) containerships, of which three will be supplied by MISC and one by Dubai-based partner Simatech Shipping LLC.
Hamid said the initial response to the service had been encouraging.
“About 80% of the total capacity of our maiden service has been fully utilised,” he said, adding that vessels serving the Halal Express would also transport other goods.
He also said the company was planning to widen its port coverage in the Middle East and Gulf area and as such would be introducing a new service called Gulf India Straits (GIS) soon.
Hamid said four vessels would be employed for GIS but added that the details had yet to be finalised. MISC also has a service linking Europe to the Middle East.
Northport (M) Bhd managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Basheer Hassan Abdul Kader said there was great potential for the port to further develop halal cargo handling.
The port had already set up halal compliant warehouses and storage areas for downstream packing and unpacking activities of halal products, he added.
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