‘Provide jetties for idle vessels’

LABUAN: The Labuan Corporation is urged to provide jetty facilities for “out of job” passenger boats as these vessels deserved such facilities considering that they are providing an important maritime connection between the island and the coastal towns of Sabah and Sarawak.

Member of Parliament Datuk Rozman Isli said he has spoken to CEO Dr Fary Akmal Osman who is also a board member of the Labuan Port Authority on the dilemma of these boat operators hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and she promised to look into the matter.

Rozman said he brought the matter to the attention of LC since it owned jetties and also due to an appeal by the Sarawak-based operator of the passenger boat “Ming Hai”.

The boat has been prohibited from using the Liberty port for idle anchorage as under port security rules unapproved vessels with no particular business could not do so as the port was a restricted area. 

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