The Best Intentions, Tempered by the Biggest Challenges

In this 2014 interview, Dato' Redza Rafiq, Chief Executive of Northern Corridor Implementation Authority, discusses its twin mandates transforming the corridor into a “world class economic region” and its socio-economic objectives. He also discusses the initiatives and challenges in each of its four key areas: tourism, logistics, manufacturing and agriculture. He also addresses impediments such as (delays at the) Second Penang Bridge and the privatisation of Penang Port (to Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary)