Port of Tanjung Pelepas

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Southeast Asia · Container Terminal

🟠 Moderate disruption Estimated arrival delay ~11h · Disruption score 30/100
UN/LOCODE
MYTPP
Country
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Port Type
Container Terminal
Ocean Region
Southeast Asia
Latitude
1.3700° N
Longitude
103.5500° E

Maritime Risk Context

In the last 180 days, ArcNautical recorded 61 vessel arrivals at Tanjung Pelepas, with Tanker accounting for 25% of port calls — lower than the Southeast Asia regional average of 38%. Voyages from Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia navigate the world's busiest shipping lanes, anchored by the Strait of Malacca — a 550-mile corridor through which roughly 100,000 vessels transit annually. The Malacca and Singapore Straits remain a persistent piracy hotspot, with ReCAAP recording dozens of incidents per year; most are low-level opportunistic theft at anchor, but the geographic concentration demands attention in any voyage risk model. Waters off eastern Sabah and the Sulu Sea present a more severe kidnap-for-ransom threat. PSC inspection regimes vary substantially across ASEAN members, and the Tokyo MOU detention data identifies which flags and vessel types face elevated scrutiny in the region.

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Top Vessel Types (last 180 days)

Across 61 distinct vessel arrivals, 56 carry a confirmed AIS ship-type code. The most common categories at Tanjung Pelepas:

25%
Tanker
14 vessels
18%
Cargo
10 vessels
16%
Tug
9 vessels
11%
Cargo
6 vessels
7%
Cargo
4 vessels

Port State Control Context

Tanjung Pelepas falls under the Tokyo MoU. The Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding (Asia-Pacific) maintains the most active publicly-available regional PSC programme. Across the last 24 months, the Tokyo MoU detention dataset records 5,331 distinct vessel detentions (sourced from OpenSanctions, as of 2026-06-14). Vessel-level detention probability is computed by ArcNautical using flag performance, vessel age, deficiency history, and ownership opacity.

Recent Arrivals at Tanjung Pelepas

Last 10 vessel arrivals recorded by ArcNautical's AIS pipeline (last 90 days):

ArrivedVesselFlagType
2026-06-10 FORTUNE GLORY 🇲🇾 MY Tanker
2026-06-10 BOWDITCH 🇺🇸 US Military Ops
2026-06-09 Unknown vessel Unknown
2026-06-09 EVER MUSE 🇸🇬 SG Cargo
2026-06-09 YUYO 2 🇵🇦 PA Tug
2026-06-09 SA HORIZON 🇲🇭 MH Tanker
2026-06-09 FORTUNE GLORY 🇲🇾 MY Tanker
2026-06-08 Unknown vessel Unknown
2026-06-08 MSC OCEAN II 🇱🇷 LR Cargo
2026-06-05 SOON LI 28 🇸🇿 SZ Cargo

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