The
main market for the Project will be the offshore support vessels plying their trade in the South China Sea, ships that
call at Kuantan Port, naval ships based at the Kuantan Naval Based, and other
vessels/ships owned by other government departments. The Project mainly caters
for vessel/ships of less than 200m lengths.
a) Offshore Support Vessels (“OSVs”) ; Various
types of offshore vessels are employed to provide support services for the offshore oil & gas activities. The
most common are Anchor Handling Tugs (“AHT”), Platform Support Vessels (“PSV”),
Floating Support Vessels (“FSV”) and A float Work Boats (‘AWB”), Construction
Support Vessels (CSVs), Dive Support Vessels (DSVs), tugs, and crew boats.
According
to Malaysia Offshore Support Vessel Owners Association (“OSV Malaysia”), the
South East Asian region accounts for about 20% of total global OSVs that are in
operation comprised of about 400 anchor handling tugs (“AHT”) and platform
supply vessels (PSV) and about 500 to 800 other types of OSVs such as construction support vessels (“CSV”), dive
support vessels (“DSV”), tugs and crew boats. About 12% of these OSVs have past
their economic useful life and approximately 21% of the remaining fleet is of
20-30 years old.
Members
of OSV Malaysia (whose membership list amount to 20 members) own 200 OSVs of
various types, which are estimated, to grow to 280 by 2016. Most of which are
anchor handling tugs, supply support vessels, fast crew boats/vessels, and AW
boats/barges. The average age of their fleet is 4.5 years as of 2011. If 40% of
these OSVs operate at the East Coast Offshore Area and the balance at
Sabah/Sarawak Offshore Area, the number of OSVs owned by members of OSV operating in East Coast
Offshore Area is 80 vessels.
Thus,
for mandatory certification requirement with interval of every 2.5 year, on average there will be one hundred and twenty
(120) OSVs that need to undergo repair
and maintenance work per year just to meet the mandatory certification. For
other repair works, if it is assumed that on average, the OSVs are need to do repair
works once in every six (6) months, the size of the market for repairs of OSVs is one hundred and sixty (160).
b) Ships called at Kuantan Port ; The
Project also targets to tap into the repair and maintenance needs of the ships that
ply the international shipping that pass through South China Sea and Selat Melaka, in particular, those ships that
call at Kuantan Port. The total number of ships that called to Kuantan Port in
2011 was 2440 ships. The port has seen a CAGR of 11.45% per year in the number
of ships called over the past 10 years. The port recorded a sharp growth in the
number of ships that called to in 2009.
Kuantan
Port was built in 1974 and has served as the export and import outlet for its
hinterland that includes most of Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan. The port
caters for all types of ships including container, dry and liquid cargo. In
particular, the port serves as the main export point for the large palm oil
production of the hinterland.
Comparatively,
Kuantan Port is still very much smaller than other ports in Peninsular Malaysia
in terms amount of Cargo handled. In term of number of ships, Kuantan Port
ranked 7th with 2440 ships called while in terms of gross registered tonnage it
also ranked the 7th place with or an average 8.890 million tonnes per ship.
c) Kuantan Naval Base ; Kuantan also host one of the naval
bases for the Royal Malaysian Navy. Though, the size of fleet based here is not
as large as that based in Lumut and Sipanggar, Sabah, the Kuantan Naval Base
provide a crucial logistic support for naval operation in the South China Sea
therefore could be expanded.
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d) Other Government Organisation ; Other potential market for the Project would include the various types of boats employed by other government organisations such as the Customs, marine police and fishery departments.
APMM
is formed to perform maritime search and rescue, to prevent maritime pollution,
to suppress piracy and to suppressing illicit traffic in narcotic drugs. The
unit currently owns 2 OPV, 1 ship, 47 patrol vessels, and 27 boats. Of these,
13 of the vessels have lies less than 20 years lifetime, 22 vessels lies
between 20 – 40 years lifetime, 15 vessels has been serviced for more than 40
years and 27 numbers of the boats have a lifetime of less than 20 in average.
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