Kota Kinabalu: Transhipment of imported rice to the Philippines from Sabah is expected to pickup following the arrival of several cargo containers from India in Tawau, recently.
Local shipping and forwarding companies welcomed the arrivals of the commodity while labour handlers at the Tawau Port are hopeful they will no longer experience any interruptions in daily income/monthly take home pay.
For the past couple of months, operators involved in the transhipment activities were affected by the reduced or non-arrivals of stocks from rice producing like Vietnam, Thailand and India for the past several months in Tawau and Sandakan, Green Givers Exim Corp Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Razanah Paimin said.
“I am happy to note that everything (transhipment transactions) is back to normal now in Tawau and Sandakan,” she said when asked to comment on the issue.