Information about the Company

Miri Port Authority is a Sarawak State Statutory Body, established in 1981. The functions of MPA are to ensure adequate and efficient port services and facilities, to coordinate the activities of the port, to promote and develop the port and to regulate the conveyance or transportation of petroleum or gas products through the port.

Situated upstream at the Kuala Baram river mouth, Miri Port operations were constrained by the shallow access channel which posed navigational challenges to vessels coming to the port terminal. To sustain its operations, Miri Port had to undertake initiatives to ensure operational excellence in its service delivery, including implementing various management systems.

Despite having implemented and certified with various management systems, Miri Port has not been able to achieve profitability and recorded operating losses in the past 20 years (1998 – 2018). The shallow access channel had restricted vessels of more than 3m draft to ply and call at Miri Port. This has resulted in double-handling costs, vessels delay, longer vessel’s turnaround time, unreliable shipping schedules and diseconomies of scale which led to high operating costs. The shallow channel could not provide 24-hour accessibility especially to the oil and gas industry that requires round the clock production at offshore operations.

Miri Port also has not been able to achieve its designed capacity of handling 5,000,000 tonnes of cargo per annum. Between 2017 and 2018, Miri Port took the revolutionary step of strengthening its collaboration with industries and customers to operate private jetties along the Miri River. This resulted in Miri Port’s successfully turning around its operations to a profit-making entity in 2019.

Miri Port’s Vision is to be a world-class port by 2030. Its Mission is to catalyse economic transformation through advanced digital and green technology to achieve growth and sustainability.