There has been a 70% drop in the number of cruise passengers calling at Penang’s Swettenham Pier terminal.
Transport Committee chairman Zairil Khir Johari said only 212,627 cruise passengers have been recorded at the Swettenham Pier Cruise Terminal this year, compared with 733,789 last year. Most of the passengers on transit were citizens from South Korea, the UK, India, China and Australia. These transit passengers typically spent half a day shopping or sight-seeing before returning to their ships.He said container handling figures last year stood at 1.13 million twenty-foot equivalent unit compared with the current 1.04 million TEUs.
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