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Northport's Southpoint, formerly known as Southport, is located just a stone's throw away from Port Klang town. The 100-year-old port caters mainly for the conventional domestic and coastal trade serviced by vessels plying along the routes between Port Klang and the ports in Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei. Besides this trade, Southpoint also acts as a major facility in Port Klang for the handling of liquid bulk cargo, mainly palm oil and latex. A sizeable quantity of dry bulk cargo, especially wheat, maize, fertilizer, cement and gypsum is also handled at Southpoint. Recently awarded the Free Commercial Zone status in February 2004, Southpoint has also attracted ro-ro carriers to discharge or load vehicles from this alternative point in Northport.
Southpoint also acts as a niche port to handle transhipment activity for the Indonesian barge traffic due to its proximity to the Sumatran ports of Tanjong Balai, Dumai, Pekan Baru, Buatan and Perawan.
Located in the centre of Port Klang town, Southpoint which is aptly termed "port-in-town", has its advantages whereby hundreds of freight forwarders and shipping agencies, banks, and other government agencies such as the Customs, Immigration Department, Harbour Masters, are all located nearby.
Currently, Southpoint has eight berths (from Berth 1 to Berth 7A). The first four have a depth between 9 m and 10.5 m to cater for ocean-going vessels up to 40,000 displacement tonnes whilst Berths 5 to 7A with depths of about 6m can accommodate coastal ships of up to 6,000 displacement tonnes.
Other facilities include eight warehouses and a recently completed container and multipurpose yard with a total space of 35,000 sq.metres apart from other port equipment's including forklifts (ranging from 3 to 10 tonnes), towing tractors, mobile cranes (10 to 15 tonnes), trailers and container trailers.
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