FOR KUANTAN PORT CITY

Client

PETRONAS & ECERDC

Products & Services

• Master Planning
• Business Strategy
• Financial Modelling
• Socio Economic Planning Strategy

“Master planning for port city required more thoughts than a typical master planning for other types of development, leveraging on its unique connectivity and accessibility to create a more sustainable and balanced development.”

Description of Project

Client

The client is a special vehicle established to play a leading role in promoting and stimulating economic and social development as well as private sector investment in the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) of Malaysia. The ECER initiatives will span till 2020. The master planner for ECER is Malaysia-owned oil and gas company, Petronas.

Background

Kuantan Port is conceived to be the premier deep-water port of the east coast of peninsular Malaysia.  Realizing the huge potential from Kuantan Port’s accessibility and connectivity to Asia Pacific and beyond, the client is aspired to develop a Master plan that will guide the development of Kuantan Port City as an integrated logistics and industrial hub.

Challenges & Expectations

Due to the huge land area, a proper zoning, land use and infrastructure planning was needed to achieve a balanced and sustainable development of the port city. Funding was another challenge as it involved large scale of infrastructure to from highway to port.

Our Role on the Project

Scope of Services

ECERDC appointed us as part of a 20 team  set of consultants to prepare a masterplan for Kuantan Port City, which involved 16,000 hectares of land. 

Scope involved business feasibility, industry reviews, resource scoping, spatial planning, transportation, infrastructure planning and investable project brief preparation with economic analysis.

Solutions / Outcomes Delivered

With the multidisciplinary expertise, the project team produced a masterplan with detailed planning from both technical and financial perspectives.

Targeted project sector pre-feasibility studies and financial feasibilities conducted includes:

• Oil & Gas Facilities
• Manufacturing Parks including POIC
• Property Townships
• Urban Developments
• Transportation – port expansion
• Infrastructure – 7km breakwater 
• Presentations and costing for Federal and State Government