Published: Monday June 22, 2009 MYT 5:04:00 PM
Facilities at KK sub base undergo rigorous testing
KOTA KINABALU: All the facilities at the country’s second submarine base here are being rigorously tested before the base starts operations with the soon-to-arrive Scorpene submarines.
“I have ordered a second team to do a second check on all the various technical components within the submarine base to ensure that there will be no problems when the Scorpenes arrive,” Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor told reporters after a working visit to the RM420mil base at the Sepanggar naval base here.
“We have reached a very critical stage and we are now carrying out testing and commissioning work.”
Shaziman said the submarine base was 97% completed and the Public Works Department (PWD) expects to hand it over to the Defence Ministry by late August.
The fast-track construction of the base involved building an administration block, an eco-friendly pontoon jetty (floating jetty), Syncrolift system at the ship lift jetty as well as a workshop hangar and bunker among other related infrastructure at the 80.9ha, he said.
Shaziman said that the project was carried out by a 70% Malaysian workforce with foreign experts involved only in the initial planning stage before the PWD and contractors worked together to put up the facility.
“This shows that with the right wages, more Malaysians are ready to take up jobs that they usually avoid,” he said, adding that the national project was widely watched by the international community.
Shaziman also disclosed that he had met with Sabah PWD officers who were seeking RM620mil to carry out rehabilitation work on 130 road stretches along hill slopes under the 10th Malaysia Plan.
“Due to heavy rainfall, some state roads on hilly areas like the Crocker Range face landslip problems so they need to be rehabilitated,” he said, adding that he had asked that a consultant be appointed to study the recurring problems.
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