The ECER SEZ lies at the geographical centre of Southeast Asia, serving as a gateway to Indochina and the two most populated countries in the world: China and India (combined population of 3 billion people).

In addition, the ECER SEZ is also member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and is entitled to privileges under the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) Agreement – an area with a combined population of more than 500 million people. Taken together, the factors above provide ready access for the SEZ into a larger “domestic market”, thus giving a bigger scale of production and bigger base to source for raw materials.

The ECER SEZ will be a key transport gateway for imports and exports for the ECER. The geographic proximity and interdependency of the Kertih Port, Kemaman Port, Kuantan Port and Tg. Agas is expected to generate 70 million tons of cargo throughputs in 2020, linking the ECER SEZ to one of the most important trade routes in the world. The ports will be the single gateway that serves the regional East Asian and Middle Eastern markets.

In addition, investors in ECER SEZ will enjoy a competitive way of doing business given the untapped opportunities such as abundance of natural resources which are critical for resource-based industries supported by development of infrastructure and vast hinterland areas compared to other important port regions in the world.