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world’s third biggest shipping company is keen to invest in
port-related ventures in the country, Transport Minister Datuk
Seri Ong Tee Keat said.
Speaking to reporters here, Ong said he had met with CMA Maritime
in France recently and talked about investing in the shipping
industry.
However, he said the recent issues relating to the Port Klang Free
Zone (PKFZ) raised by DAP leader Lim Kit Siang could discourage
foreign investors from setting up related ventures in Port Klang.
Lim had already read the PricewaterhouseCoopers reports on the
PKFZ and yet still raised issues about the project.
“He keeps asking about the three-year-old question to which he
already knew the answer,” Ong said after opening the Ledang MCA
division’s annual general meeting yesterday.
Ong said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had announced
on Saturday more liberalisation policies in many sectors and as a
minister he supported the move.
He said he hoped the new liberalisation policies would attract
more foreign investors to set up business ventures in the country.
He said he recently met with China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao who
pledged to import more palm oil from Malaysia and also provide
soft loan facilities.
He said these developments were the result of MCA’s economic
agenda planned last year and wanted all party members to know the
latest progress of the agenda.
“I informed the Ledang MCA leaders about the progress as I want
the grassroots to know about the results of the party’s economic
agenda,” he added. |
