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Cabotage: Amazon joins tech giants in appeal to PM
Published:  Apr 10, 2021 10:49 AM
Updated: 7:22 AM

Four tech giants - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Facebook, Google, and Microsoft - have jointly issued an "urgent" request to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to reinstate the cabotage exemption on submarine cable repair ships.

In a letter to the premier sighted by Malaysiakini, the four companies said the revocation of the exemption negatively impacted Malaysia's attractiveness as an investment destination for global tech companies and the policy delivers negligible economic benefits to Malaysia.

"It further affects the...

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