cabotage

Cabotage policies regulate shipping or trade activities in a country's waters or airspace.

The statement by an Indonesian Consul in Sabah pertaining to the use of wooden hull ships and smaller vessels in Malaysian and Indonesian waters by linking them with the cabotage policy is inaccurate.

It will prepare domestic players to participate in future cable repairing or larger projects while positioning M'sia as a data centre hub.

The current cancellation of the cabotage policy exemption is only for repair works and does not prevent the entry of foreign investments.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are seeking to meet Ismail Sabri to ask that foreign vessels be allowed to repair undersea cables.

Industry sources have stated that new submarine cables that were planned to land in Malaysia have now been put on hold by foreign investors.

There are two strong opposing views on the issue of the cabotage policy impacting the undersea internet cable industry.

Das said the chamber is ready to support the government in reviewing its legislative and regulatory measures under MyDIGITAL.

Malaysia's cabotage policy was not the reason why giant technology companies skipped the country in their plans to install undersea cables.

With shorter repair time of undersea cable, Sabah would be able to capture numerous new and enormous opportunities.

The revocation of the cabotage exemption that previously allowed foreign vessels to carry out undersea communications cable repair works in Malaysian waters was not decided unilaterally.

Among the strategies was to produce as much food or crops as possible using the abundant natural resources available in these two states.

Transport Deputy Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi said the exemption, effective June 1, was requested by leaders of the two states.

The cabotage policy exemption from June 1 will enable more entrepreneurs in Sabah to export their products at competitive costs.

Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said implementation of the cabotage policy, particularly involving export companies in Sabah, will be discussed at next month's meeting of the National Export Council.

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