KL Industry Trip 2008: Last Day

On the third day, we all checked out of our lodgings in the morning before our trip down to Westports, one of the two major ports in Klang Valley dealing with the imports and exports of the country. There was an impressive multimedia presentation by Ms Firdaus, a Public Relation Executive and it was an eye opening experience for us as Westports has a combined 61% market share in year 2007 with Northport. We were introduced to the machinery only found in ports, like the quay crane, which can carry weights twice its size, to the prime mover, of which there are 208 units. Westport has two major types of businesses, namely the container and conventional businesses. Their 14 berths are specially designed to fit into these main businesses, with berths 1-5 for conventional businesses, while berths 6-14 are specifically for the container businesses. The presentation was followed by light refreshments and finally a bus tour around the compound of the docking sites guided by the Port’s internal police officer. The vast size of the property was so large it took half an hour to cover the whole area. The cranes, shipping docks and so on were pointed out by our tour guide.


The last main event of the day was our Networking Lunch at the CPA main office. Here we had a meet and greet session over lunch with some members of two other student charters from universities in KL, namely Sunway (Victoria University) CPA Australia Student Charter and CPA Student Charter of Metropolitan University College. Both student charters shared what they have done for the year, as well as what they are planning to do for the upcoming semester. Victoria University Student Charter has been around for two years, and their track record is impressive, as they have organised many activities for their students, namely educational trips to many industries, as well as trips to various accounting firms like Ernst and Young and KPMG.
Although the student charter for Metropolitan University College is relatively young, they are already planning a trip to Singapore. They are planning to visit Temasek Holdings, and Singtel, among other companies.

A group picture of those staying at Traveller's Palm Lodge.

Committee photo! (Look how vain we are :)

The first company we visited on that day was Westport, one of the biggest ports in Port Klang. Naturally we were in awe of the humongous size of the business's compound!

I believe we were all eying the cars lined up on the compound!

After that, off we were to CPA's Head Office where we were joined for lunch by two other student charters under CPA, namely Student Charter of Sunway College (SCSC), Sunway University College, and CPA Student Charter of Metropolitan.