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• Public Toilets and disable toilets The Appointment Of The Ministry Of
• Kiosk Transport As The Agency For Monitoring
• Pedestrian Walkways in the vicinity The Implementation Of Logistics And
• Covered walkways Trade Facilitation Masterplan
• Pedestrian crossings to HAB building
The Prime Minister has launched Logistics
Road Charge And Vehicle Entry Permit and Trade Facilitation Masterplan on 16
(VEP) Policy March 2015. The Masterplan has been
completed with the cooperation of the
Ministry of Transport has also been Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s
entrusted to spearhead the project Department together with various
of Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) and ministries and related agencies. In line
the collection of road charges (RC), with this appointment, the Minister of
which aims to register all vehicles Transport has also been appointed as
with foreign registration and charged the Chairman of the Logistics and Trade
them with RM20.00. Cabinet in its Facilitation.
meeting dated 27 March 2015 and
2 September 2015 agreed with the This team will ensure that the action
proposed implementation of RC and plan outlined in the Master Plan can be
VEP applied the provisions of the implemented properly. The task force
Federal Government. VEP and RC will will also ensure that all the relevant
be enforced in phases where the first ministries and agencies to provide a full
phase involving a foreign vehicles commitment to the implementation of
entering Malaysia-Singapore border. this action plan.

Through the implementation of RC and Total Passenger, Total Cargo, And
VEP, information on all vehicles with Aircraft Movements
foreign registration can be recorded in
VEP system that will make it easier for The total number of passengers handled
law enforcement agencies to regulate at all the airports across the country
and monitor the movement of foreign in 2015 amounted to 86.41 million
vehicles. VEP system will also be able passengers, an increase of 0.86% or
to strengthen the enforcement to 735 million in passengers compared to
ensure the payment of outstanding 2014 with 85.67 million passengers. Total
summonses against foreign vehicles passengers for 2013 and 2012 are 81.58
while addressing the problem of million and 68.46 million passengers per
cloned vehicles and dumping of year.
foreign vehicles in our country.
While the amount of cargo handled by
To enforce the collection of RC, the all airports across the country in 2015
Road Transport (road charges for was 979,427.97 tonnes which showed
Motor Vehicles) have been drafted a decreace of 3.26% or 32,969.22
and gazetted on Feb 2, 2016. Currently, tonnes compared to 2014 with the
construction of the system is in the total of 1,012,397.18 tonnes. Total cargo
process at Bangunan Sultan Iskandar handled in 2013 and 2012 are 940,774.59
and Complex Sultan Abu Bakar. RC and and 889,985.44 tonnes per year.
VEP system would be implemented at
the Malaysia-Singapore in June 2016. Total aircraft movements in all airports
across the country in 2015, was 856,957.
This amount showed an increase of 2.67%
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