Union comes up with business plan to save KTMB

By Yiswaree Palansamy
June 19, 2013

The kinship claims current capacity for KTM Komuter cannot be met.The Railwaymen Union of Malaya (RUM) has come up with a commercial operation devise which it says can save Malaysias largest railway network.

It wants to improve a load commercial operation side of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) by opening it to multiple operators.

The rail network can additionally lift some-more money if it leases out a marks to some-more operators, identical to a judgment of doing tolls upon highways, pronounced a kinship president Abdul Razak Md Hassan.

We have been substantially a usually kinship in a universe which has drafted a commercial operation plan, he pronounced in a press conference currently called to direct which a supervision drops a devise to allow a Malaysia Mining Corporation (MMC) to take over KTMB.

You dont usually give something this big away when you feel a running in to losses. Listen to us as well as hear what you have to say. Do not simply view us as railway lane workers alone, he added after in an interview with The Malaysian Insider.

An review of KTMB in 2011 showed it had RM100 million in losses. The subsequent year, a waste scarcely tripled to RM280 million.

The rail usually runs 2-5 percent of load in a country. RUM says a multiple operator proceed can assistance to increase this by one-third.

The kinship pronounced KTMB will be means to make big profits after two large-scale marks have been ready. These have been a Seremban-Gemas electric double-tracking railway lane project subsequent month as well as a Ipoh-Padang Besar lane in 2014. But they must have enough train cars as well as infrastructure, Abdul Razak said.

"The current rolling stock you have is insufficient as well as makes KTMB unqualified of doing bigger commuter as well as load travel volume,! " he sai d, adding which a lack of crucial business-friendly amenities additionally raises costs.

"Under this module, a supervision need usually be responsible to yield infrastructure as well as minimal rolling bonds for KTMB's use during emergency. This procedure has been used in Britain as well as India as well as it proved to yield high revenue, subsequently reducing operational costs."

He pronounced which KTMB holds so most potential as well as it can even extend a service up compartment China, similar to a long train judgment seen in a United States, Canada as well as India.

We have been not here usually to quarrel for our perks as well as privileges though you have been additionally here to defend this inhabitant treasure, he pronounced to The Malaysian Insider. June 19, 2013.