GEORGE TOWN: The state government has asked Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) to take over ferry operations, which had incurred RM21mil in losses, from the Penang Port Sdn Bhd (PPSB).
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the state government was ready to take risks, challenges and losses as the ferry services had an historic and heritage background.
The ferry services, he said, were also important and meaningful to Penangites.
Lim said he was confident that MPPP could turna round and improve the running of the ferry services.
"We have not made a formal application to the Transport Ministry, but we have asked the newly elected MPPP president Tan Cheng Chui to have a meeting with the Penang Port Commission (PPC) chairman Tan Cheng Liang soon," he said.
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