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41-663: North Klang Straits Bypass , Federal Route 20, AH 141 , is the main highway bypass to Port Klang in Klang , Selangor , Malaysia . Federal Route 20 became the backbone of the road system linking Sungai Rasau to Port Klang before being surpassed by the New North Klang Straits Bypass 30. Many cargo trucks travel along the highway daily. The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 20 starts at Northport Interchange near Port Klang . The plan to build

82-600: A bar is produced that diminishes the available depth in the approach channel. By carrying out a solid jetty over the bar, however on each side of the outlet, the tidal currents are concentrated in the channel across the bar, and lower it by scour. Thus the available depth of the approach channels to Venice through the Malamocco and Lido outlets from the Venetian Lagoon have been deepened several feet (metres) over their bars by jetties of rubble, carried out across

123-430: A breakwater situated in shallow water. Where docks are given sloping sides, openwork timber jetties are generally carried across the slope, at the ends of which vessels can lie in deep water or more solid structures are erected over the slope for supporting coal-tips. Pilework jetties are also constructed in the water outside the entrances to docks on each side, so as to form an enlarging trumpet-shaped channel between

164-454: A few years before, the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross had proved in 1897 that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes ; Port Swettenham was the first colonial area to benefit from the discovery. Swamps were filled in, jungle cleared, and surface water diverted to destroy mosquito breeding grounds and combat further disruption to port operations. The threat of malaria was removed completely by

205-402: A large expanse of lagoon or inland backwater causes the influx and efflux of the tide to maintain a deep channel through a narrows no longer confined by a bank on each side, becomes dispersed, and owing to the reduction of its scouring force, is no longer able at a moderate distance from the shore effectually to resist the action of tending to form a continuous beach in front of the outlet. Hence

246-582: Is a frequent bus and commuter train service to Kuala Lumpur via Klang. Port Klang is served by the KTM Komuter service and trains stop at the  KD19  Port Klang Komuter station . The electric train service links to Klang, Kuala Lumpur , Subang Jaya , Shah Alam and all the way until Tanjung Malim . A passenger ferry terminal to Pulau Ketam and an International terminal to Tanjungbalai and Dumai in Indonesia are also located in

287-551: Is located next to the cargo terminals of Westport. Cruise line and naval ships drop anchor in any of the three berths at Port Klang Cruise Centre, which was under the management of Star Cruises before being taken over by the Glenn Marine Group . Port Klang is the western end of the Federal Highway Federal Route 2 that links it all the way to Kuala Lumpur . The KESAS interchanges with

328-483: Is marked on a 1954 map by the United States Army . Much of the port's facilities that were damaged during the war were reconstructed. The port expanded to the south with permanent installations to handle more palm oil and latex, two increasingly important exports. Imports also grew tremendously, and tonnage of cargo handled at the port far exceeded what was thought possible before the war. On 1 July 1963,

369-403: Is not considered safe because of many accidents involving heavy vehicles along this road, especially the area around a school. On 18 May 2005, on Teacher's Day , a seven-year-old girl from Sekolah Rendah Agama Rantau Panjang religious school Nur Salina Saparedi was knocked by a lorry while she was crossing this road. Port Klang Port Klang ( Malay : Pelabuhan Klang ) is a town and

410-583: The Black Sea , and the south pass of the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico , formed of rubble stone and concrete blocks, and respectively, have enabled the discharge of these rivers to scour away the bars obstructing the access to them; and they have also carried the sediment-bearing waters sufficiently far out to come under the influence of littoral currents, which, by conveying away some of

451-514: The District of Klang , it was the 14th busiest container port (2022) in the world. It was also the 12th busiest port in by volume (million TEU) in 2018 and as of July 2020 was the top location for aluminium stockholding for LME , the top metal exchange in the world. Klang was formerly the terminus of the government railway and the port of the State. In 1880, the state capital of Selangor

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492-682: The Pulau Indah Expressway Federal Route 181 in nearby Pandamaran connects to Westports and the PKFZ . Main roads that link the Port Klang town, Southport and housing area are Persiaran Raja Muda Musa and Jalan Pelabuhan Utara . Since 2012, Pulau Indah is directly connected to Malaysia's administrative capital, Putrajaya and Kajang via the SKVE [REDACTED] South Klang Valley Expressway . There

533-480: The foreshore into deep water on both sides of the channel. Other examples are provided by the long jetties extended into the sea in front of the entrance to Charleston harbour, formerly constructed of fascines weighed down with stone and logs, but subsequently of rubble stone, and by the two converging rubble jetties carried out from each shore of Dublin Bay for deepening the approach to Dublin harbour. Jetties have

574-688: The river Yare to the south of Yarmouth , and has also been successfully employed for fixing the wandering mouth of the Adur near Shoreham , and of the Adour flowing into the Bay of Biscay below Bayonne. When a new channel was cut across the Hook of Holland to provide a straighter and deeper outlet channel for the river Meuse , forming the approach channel to Rotterdam , low, broad, parallel jetties, composed of fascine mattresses weighted with stone, were carried across

615-520: The LME aluminium storage wars over the last couple of years": 911,000 tonnes or registered stock and 434,000 tonnes of shadow stocks were held there at the end of May 2020. The Port Klang Authority administers three ports in the Port Klang area namely Northport , Southpoint and Westport . Prior to the establishment of the Port Klang Authority, South Port was the only existing port and

656-636: The Malaysian government established the Port Swettenham Authority, which was subsequently changed to Port Klang Authority , as a statutory corporation to take over the administration of Port Klang from the Malayan Railway Administration. In the late 1960s and 1970s new deepwater berths were constructed with wharves suitable for handling container as well as conventional cargoes. The Royal Selangor Yacht Club

697-473: The Port Klang toll plaza was closed and the parts of Jalan Kapar – Port Klang sections became a toll free highway. In 2014, the expressway was taken over to LGB Group and its name was changed to Grand Sepadu Sdn Bhd . At most sections, the Federal Route 20 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, with a speed limit of 90 km/h. There are no alternate routes or sections with motorcycle lanes. The bypass

738-680: The area. The old ferry terminal used to serve regular passenger boats to Pulau Lumut and Telok Gonjeng terminal until the completion of Northport Bridge link. Port Klang is under the jurisdiction of the Klang Municipal Council (MPK) . It is represented in the Parliament by the Member of Parliament for Klang , Ganabatirau Veraman . In the State Assembly of Selangor , the township is represented by Azmizam Zaman Huri ,

779-407: The basins in which vessels lie when discharging and taking in cargoes in such a port as Marseille . The approach channel to some ports situated on sandy coasts is guided and protected across the beach by parallel jetties. In some cases, these are made solid up to a little above low water of neap tides , on which open timber-work is erected, provided with a planked platform at the top raised above

820-504: The bypass to Port Klang began in the late 1970s. Construction began in 1983 and completed on 1 January 1985. Today this highway are maintained by the Lebuhraya Shapadu Sdn Bhd (a member of Shapadu Corporation Sdn Bhd) and Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR). By the 1990s to 2000s, the highway was bogged down with severe congestion, and the present New North Klang Straits Bypass was built to replace it. On 2009,

861-405: The channel the outlet has not only been protected to some extent from the easterly drift, but the bar in front has been lowered by the scour produced by the discharge of the river following the concave bend of the southwest jetty. As the outer portion of this jetty was exposed to westerly storms from the Bay of Biscay before the outer harbour was constructed, it has been given the form and strength of

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902-482: The deepening of the jetty channel by dredging and the need that arose for its enlargement led to the reconstruction of the jetties at these ports. The nes jetties at Dunkirk were founded in the sandy beach, by the aid of compressed air, at a depth of 22.75 feet (6.93 m). below low water of spring tides; and their solid masonry portion, on a concrete foundation was raised 50 feet (15 m). above low water of neap tides . A small tidal rise spreading tidal water over

943-637: The end of the exercise. Trade grew rapidly and two new berths were added by 1914 along with other port facilities. The Selangor Polo Club was founded in Port Swettenham in 1902 but it moved to Kuala Lumpur in 1911. Between World Wars I and II , the port experienced much growth and expansion, peaking in 1940 when tonnage rose to 550,000 tonnes. During the Second World War Allied aircraft were serviced by RAF Servicing Commandos at airfields in Port Swettenham. Its location

984-427: The entrance, lock or tidal basin and the approach channel, in order to guide vessels in entering or leaving the docks. Solid jetties, moreover, lined with quay walls, are sometimes carried out into a wide dock, at right angles to the line of quays at the side, to enlarge the accommodation; and they also serve, when extended on a large scale from the coast of a tideless sea under shelter of an outlying breakwater, to form

1025-414: The foreshore into the sea on either side of the new mouth of the river, to protect the jetty channel from littoral drift, and cause the discharge of the river to maintain it out to deep water. The channel, also, beyond the outlet of the river Nervion into the Bay of Biscay has been regulated by jetties; and by extending the south-west jetty out for nearly 0.5 miles (0.80 km) with a curve concave towards

1066-406: The highest tides. In other cases, they consist entirely of solid material without timber-work. The channel between the jetties was originally maintained by tidal scour from low-lying areas close to the coast, and subsequently by the current from sluicing basins; but it is now often considerably deepened by sand-pump dredging . It is protected to some extent by the solid portion of the jetties from

1107-406: The inroad of sand from the adjacent beach, and from the levelling action of the waves; while the upper open portion serves to indicate the channel and to guide the vessels, if necessary (see harbor ). The bottom part of the older jetties, in such long-established jetty ports as Calais , Dunkirk and Ostend , was composed of clay or rubble stone, covered on the top by fascine-work or pitching, but

1148-467: The main gateway by sea into Malaysia . Known during colonial times as Port Swettenham ( Malay : Pelabuhan Swettenham ) but renamed Port Klang in July 1972, it is the largest port in the country. It is located about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of the town of Klang , and 38 kilometres (24 mi) southwest of Kuala Lumpur . Port Klang was also known as the "National Load Centre". Located in

1189-458: The ore to Klang's port, Pelabuhan Batu. Nineteen and a half miles of rail track from Kuala Lumpur to Bukit Kudu was opened in September 1886, and extended 3 miles to Klang in 1890. River navigation, however, was difficult, as only ships drawing less than 3.9 metres (13 ft) of water could come up the jetty , and thus a new port was selected near the mouth of the river as the anchorage

1230-414: The river from time to time shifts the position of its mouth. This inconvenient cycle of changes may be stopped by fixing the outlet of the river at a suitable site, by carrying a jetty on each side of this outlet across the beach, thereby concentrating its discharge in a definite channel and protecting the mouth from being blocked up by littoral drift. This system was long ago applied to the shifting outlet of

1271-513: The scour of the river and protecting the channel from being shoaled by the littoral drift along the shore. Another application of parallel jetties is in lowering the bar in front of one of the mouths of a deltaic river flowing into a tide — a virtual prolongation of its less sea, by extending the scour of the river out to the bar by banks. Jetties prolonging the Sulina branch of the Danube into

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1312-470: The sediment, postpone the eventual formation of a fresh bar farther out (see river engineering ). Where a river is narrow near its mouth, has a generally feeble discharge and a small tidal range, the sea is liable on an exposed coast to block up its outlet during severe storms. The river is thus forced to seek another exit at a weak spot of the beach, which along a low coast may be at some distance off; and this new outlet in its turn may be blocked up, so that

1353-468: The state assemblyman for Pelabuhan Klang . Jetty One form of jetties, wing dams , are extended out, opposite one another, from each bank of a river, at intervals, to contract a wide channel , and by concentration of the current to produce a deepening. Jetties have been constructed on each side of the outlet river of some of the rivers flowing into the Baltic , with the objective of prolonging

1394-432: The time, William Bloomfield Douglas, that the journey to Kuala Lumpur was "rather long and boring". He continued to suggest a train line be built as an alternative route. In September 1882, Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham was appointed Selangor's new Resident. Swettenham initiated a rail link between Klang and Kuala Lumpur to overcome the transport problems, particularly of the tin mining interests who needed to convey

1435-740: The world. The port is part of the Maritime Silk Road that runs from the Chinese coast via the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, there to the Upper Adriatic region of Trieste with its connections to Central and Eastern Europe . As of July 2020 , Port Klang was the top location for aluminium stockholding for LME , the top metal exchange in the world. LME reported that the port had "taken centre stage in

1476-536: Was a merger of two companies – Kelang Container Terminal (KCT) and Kelang Port Management (KPM). Its operations also cover South Port, which was renamed Southpoint for conventional cargo handling, and acquired Northport Distripark Sdn Bhd (NDSB) as part of its logistics division. Westport is managed by Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Kelang Multi Terminal Sdn Bhd). A passenger port, Port Klang Cruise Centre, opened in December 1995 at Pulau Indah which

1517-483: Was administered by the Malayan Railway Administration . Both Westport and Northport have been privatized and managed as separate entities. The total capacity of the port is 109,700,000 tons of cargo in 2005 compared to 550,000 tons in 1940. Northport is owned and operated by Northport (Malaysia) Bhd and comprises dedicated multipurpose port facilities and services. The Northport entity

1558-545: Was first registered here as "Port Swettenham Yacht Club" in July 1969. In November 1972, Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak declared the container terminal open and in May 1974, construction of seven more berths for bulk cargo began and was completed in 1983. In October 1982, construction of the liquid bulk terminal in North Port was completed. On 17 March 1986, the container terminal facilities operated by Port Klang Authority

1599-469: Was good. Developed by the Malayan Railway and officially opened 15 years later on 15 September 1901 by Swettenham himself, the new port was named Port Swettenham . Both Klang and Port Swettenham were already known as notoriously malaria prone localities with the port itself located on a mangrove swamp . Within two months of its opening, the port was closed due to an outbreak of malaria . Just

1640-500: Was moved from Klang to the more strategically advantageous Kuala Lumpur. Rapid development at the new administrative centre in the late 1800s attracted businessmen and job seekers alike from Klang. At this time the only methods of transport between Klang and Kuala Lumpur were by horse or buffalo drawn wagons, or boat ride along the Klang River to Damansara . Due to this Frank Swettenham stated to Selangor's British Resident at

1681-559: Was privatised to Klang Container Terminal Berhad as part of the privatisation exercise of the government. In January 1988, construction work began on a new 800 feet (240 m) berth, as an alternative to the immediate development of West Port. A government directive in 1993 has identified Port Klang to be developed into the National Load Centre. Port Klang has since grown and now establishes trade connections with over 120 countries and dealings with more than 500 ports around

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