PIP aims to migrate cargoes from road transport to rail thereby reducing GHG emissions by 82% in line with the National Transport Policy 2019.
At present, more than 200,000 TEUs use the North South Expressway to transport transshipment cargo from Southern Thailand to Penang. This is a total Carbon Dioxide overhang of at least 1.55 million tonnes per annum. This can be reduced by at least 80% if this traffic can be moved to rail freight.
Increasing the usage of rail movement from current ten movements to twenty-four per day will allow a further 100,000 TEU per annum to migrate from road to rail. That is a minimum of 50,000 truck movements between Bukit Kayu Hitam (Changlun) to Penang Port (Butterworth) by road to rail. This amounts to nearly one million tonnes of emission reduction through simple operational efficiencies.
