Friday, 01 Jan 2021 01:11 PM MYT
BY OPALYN MOK
Penang Port Commission Datuk Tan Teik Cheng (right) greeting passengers alighting from the fast boat at Swettenham Pier Cruise Terminal, January 1, 2020. ― Picture by Opalyn Mok
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GEORGE TOWN, Jan 1 ― The Penang Port Commission (PPC) predicts as many as 10,000 passengers will ride on its new fast boats across the Penang channel on its first day of operations today.
About 2,000 passengers had been recorded boarding the boats in the first four-and-a-half hours since the fleet rolled out, Penang Port Commission chairman Datuk Tan Teik Cheng said.