I have written this book in the hope that the history of Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar and Anson port and portside, an important area which now no longer exists, is not forgotten forever,
The beaches would have been replaced by concrete wharves. He would, of course, find it strange that one large part of the wharves would be empty. With tall metallic structures on one side that stood still and silent. As he looked into the area behind the wharves, he would have noticed that it was huge and be puzzled that no one was there.
In conventional ports, cargo would be in pallets, boxes, sacks or nets. These would be loaded by the ship’s own derricks or cranes on shore, including crane lorries with extended booms. Then there was a change in the thinking. It was decided that the port would be relocated. All the container operations would move along the southwest coast to Pasir Panjang, with the final destination being the Tuas Megaport.
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