Malaysia Shipowners’ Association: Local companies have capabilities to do undersea cable repairs | Malay Mail

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PUTRAJAYA, Dec 2 — Malaysian companies have the capabilities to conduct subsea cable repairs, insists the Malaysia Shipowners’ Association (MASA). MASA is happy with the government’s recent decision to revoke the cabotage exemption allowing foreign-flagged ships to repair undersea cables in...

Wednesday, 02 Dec 2020 08:13 PM MYT

Its chairman Datuk Abdul Hak Md Amin said Malaysian companies owned a total of four qualified and certified cable ships, currently used by the industry for installation and maintenance of undersea cables. The cabotage exemption for foreign vessels was granted in April 2019 by former Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook following requests from telecommunication companies.

He said the repair operations took between 29 and 48 days, much longer than the prevalent belief that the exemption was needed to bring down repair time to fewer than 27 days.

 

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