Our Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced a multi-billion ringgit industrial park by the name of Tanjung Agas oil and gas and maritime industrial park project in Pekan, Pahang. This industrial park covers an area of 1,639 hatares and will begin in the second quarter of this year and to be expected to be completed in 3 to 4 years. This will provide vast opportunities for locals, especially, the population in the east coast states of Pahang, Trengganu and Kelantan to be employed in industries such as maintenance and services in the petrochemical and logistic industry, supplies and services for the oil and gas industry and all other related trades. From the report, an estimated 5,000 new j0bs will be created during the initial phase of this project which is scheduled to commence this year. Overall , this project will create 30,000 new jobs over a period of 10 years.
This oil and gas and maritime industrial park will definitedly benefit the people who reside around this industrial park, especially the folks in Pekan, Rompin and Kuantan Districts. The people around these area must be mentally prepared and to seize this once in the lifetime opportunities for the boom time that will definitedly come in future. This will create a vibrant and modern complexes in these area which will definitedly enrich the people. The economic multiplier effect for this project would be enormous at this moment of global economic crisis in order to stimulate the eastern corridor economic activities which of late, had slowed down with fewer vehicles on the roads and lesser crowds in the shops and malls.
We have to thank the Federal government for speraheading this multi-billion ringgit industrial project to bring more economic benefits and development to the people in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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