No plan to revive old Penang ferry service, says Loke

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There is no plan to bring back the iconic Penang ferry for passenger services, says Anthony Loke.  The Transport Minister said operating the old ferry service is technically challenging as it is difficult to source replacement parts and its incompatibility with the new ferry terminals.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4xsjspy2   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Ferry Pulau Pinang

00:30Untuk Pulau Pinang yang utama

00:31Sejak berpuluh tahun yang lalu

00:33Walaupun Iconic Ferry ini telah pun ditamatkan operasinya

00:38Pada tahun 2020

00:39Tetapi apa yang kita kekalkan sebagai nostalgia

00:44Kepada rakyat Pulau Pinang ialah

00:46Ferry tersebut

00:48Yang diubah suai menjadi sebuah muzium

00:51Di sini

00:52Jadi saya yakin bahawa muzium ini akan memberikan

00:56Satu nilai warisan dan sejarah

00:59Yang besar kepada Pulau Pinang

01:01Dan supaya bukan sahaja rakyat tempatan

01:04Malah pengunjung-pengunjung

01:05Boleh mengetahui

01:06Asal-usul dan juga sejarah

01:09Ferry tersebut

01:10Bagaimana dia membantu

01:12Pembangunan negeri Pulau Pinang

01:14Selama

01:15Satu abad yang lalu

01:18Jadi saya

01:20Amat

01:22Amat berbangga

01:25Dengan pembukaan muzium

01:26Ferry Pulau Pinang ini

01:27Kerana ia merupakan satu

01:30Satu nilai sejarah

01:32Yang tidak boleh dipadamkan

01:34Dan saya harap ini dapat memberikan

01:36Bukan sahaja kepada

01:38Peluang kepada

01:39Lebih ramai orang

01:41Untuk mengenali

01:42Ferry Pulau Pinang

01:43Tetapi juga merupakan

01:44Satu produk perlancongan

01:45Untuk Pulau Pinang

01:46Tuan

01:48Adakah kesempatan

01:49Peri perlancongan ikonik

01:51Untuk bertanggungan

01:52Dan juga

01:53Mungkin

01:53Perlancongan

01:55Perlancongan

01:56Ini akan memberi

01:57Menuhi

01:57Perlancongan

01:57Kerana

01:58Bersudah

01:58Perlancongan

01:59Tidak dimaksudkan

02:01Tidak ada

02:01Pancang

02:01Untuk resist

02:02Perlancongan ikonik

02:03Seperti kita

02:05Kerana

02:06Perlancongan ikonik

02:06Perlancongan

02:08Perlancongan

02:09Sangat

02:09Selatan

02:10Sedap

02:11Sudah

02:12Perlancongan

02:12Dan

02:13Tidak

02:14Tidak

02:15Pocos

02:16Pocos

02:16to change to the new ferry the terminal has changed so so the current terminals

02:22is not suitable for the iconic ferry because the operation is totally

02:26different so to in order for the for us to revive the old iconic ferry services

02:33you need to build another terminal which is not possible at this part of time so

02:39I think we have made a decision that for normal services for passenger services

02:44the new ferry should proceed the iconic ferry as we have mentioned and we have

02:50done we have turned it into a museum there's another one being turned into a

02:54floating restaurant and I think it should continue to be a tourism product instead

03:00of for normal passenger services for the normal passenger services currently there

03:04are four ferries of course under the contract under the agreement they should

03:09have at least five so that if the demand is high then of course the port commission

03:16should look into she should look into asking the operator to increase it to the

03:22maximum five in terms of capacity because PPSP recently said that not recently last year

03:28they said that despite having many passengers using the ferry the profit is still not there yet what do you think would be the issue here

03:36of course because we we we control the prices do you want them to make profit so if you want to

03:44bring profit it's not it's not social enterprise this is part of the penang port

03:48privatization this is the obligation of PBSB so of course we know that the penang ferry services is

03:56not it's not profit making in fact they have to cross subsidize the operation I see

04:02incur losses but but that is an obligation under the privatization plan so the entire penang

04:10ferry services is part of the privatization plan of penang port so they take everything together so this is

04:18a cross-subsidy model why why they cannot make money on ferry services for a simple

04:23reason the government controls the fare and we are not going to increase the fare if

04:28not then I'm sure penang X would not be happy as well because a lot of people

04:32depends on this mode as a daily commute between the Butterworth and the Georgetown so

04:37we have no plan to increase the fact in fact right now under our new agreement

04:43uh every year uh they have to give uh eight days right twelve days of free services that's why

04:51right nowadays you see Chinese New Year and some public holidays we give free services it's not it's

04:59it's not a decision by PBSB it's a decision of PPC because we have to ensure that they deliver on the

05:05public goods as well the public services as well so that's why certain days in the year we are giving free

05:11uh ferry services to the public

05:13uh

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