Why Did $10 Billion Melaka Gateway Mega Project Fail?

[@ivangim1]

Once upon a time, there was a grand plan to build Desaru International Resort in Johor. It flopped. Then, Melaka Gateway. It flopped. Heard of Forest City in JB? What's the common thread in all 3 wobbly mega projects? Think!

[@tokasync5665]

Those projects were approved by Najib and PH attacked him day & night which led to project delays & cancellations. Now it is PH time to show they are better than Najib or they are here to kencing sahaja.

[@equalrights9091]

Malays muslims that are corrupted.

[@HenryDrake-h5m]

All Chinese projects 😊

[@SharifMusleh-s1x]

All flip flop

[@windydragon6522]

@@tokasync5665 More like Tun M pulled the handbrakes on all these?

[@josephyeo6966]

Within the first 3 minutes of your video, anyone can see the foolishness of the plan. Fancy staying at a grand luxury hotel with views of shipyards, containers and oil shipping paraphenalia? Not good to mix luxury resorts with commercial shipping and container ship dockyards. Add in corruption and you have it.

[@leecheelek]

That's the problem with Malaysian politicians. Grand ambitious projects when in Power as a symbol to denote their Leadership success and line the pockets of cronies at the same time as payback. In the end, everything flops because thr ROI is just not feasible after the juice is already drained away upfront and hoping for financing from new investors/blind fools to complete the project. That's the way most projects get done as no one wants to work anymore and all wants Quick monies.

[@hylimm]

Malaysian politicians only good at awarding contracts to get a cut for themselves

[@gavinlew8273]

Every politician does that...the world doesn't need politicians.

[@limseongkang2163]

talk great but no think

[@starby1243]

True. And it's always for their kids to just get paycheck every month without working. And use a lot of taxpayers money.

[@mikemcklieve]

It got the special China CCP trademark

[@mohdzubaidibinothman2096]

You used incorrect footage in the video, which may have led to a misunderstanding. The scenes of a monk and army demonstration were not in Malaysia.

[@shastriruban]

Yes! That happend in sri lanka

[@reevethang3101]

Yes. Even got footage of China development and forest city. Just for the sake of sensationalizing the story more.

[@AlbertCheok]

@@shastriruban

[@maxirona]

you do know this is youtube right ? video & audio right ? if you need CORRECT footage , kindly proceed to your local news channel you don't suit youtube

[@ahmadyusof2480]

​@@maxironaSo you need to bluff in order to qualify in you tube right?

[@penukulbesi4006]

Malacca has a very low population, projects like this already exist in Johor and Penang and Malacca is not attractive to foreign investors

[@reezevlog]

Johor with the ghost city…yeah…..

[@algigirl]

That one was offered if buy villa in mainland chaina, they will get a property in forest city with Malaysian citizenship.. that what offered there. If you go to forest city sales office , you don't feel you are in chaina. Free unit in ghoscity with msian passport.

[@izhamsham843]

00:05:18 the heck??? This isn't footage of Malaysia, let alone Melaka.. malicious, or just incompetent editors?

[@gpentium]

exactly and asking for us to sub while uploading fake videos

[@user-qp2cw3po4h]

That's what I thought...🙄

[@arifzaki5649]

Fake channel

[@secrets.295]

I actually think that building just a cruise port is an excellent idea. I don't think Melaka would struggle to acconodate the influx of new tourists. Melaka receives tens of millions of tourists both locally and internationally. The infrastructure is already there, they need to just upgrade it. I also don't think attractions will be an issue, there are plenty of museums in Melaka and lots of attractions there. I don't like the original plan because for such a small city and much lower wages conpared to Kuala Lumpur, it doesn't make sense for the government to build so many high end condominiums abd luxury shopping malls. It also will make Melaka status as Malaysia historical city less authentic. Lets not create too many skyscrapers in Melaka. Lets keep the old city vibe to it and keep it authentic.

[@johntan2346]

Agreed. Why go and reclaim the land which will cause harm to the environment and ecological inbalance? Malacca is not a state that is short of land, it still has plenty of land to develop whatever tourists attraction it wants. Just don't touch the beautiful beaches and sea.

[@Nicaway]

Not sure about cruise port. Most cruise packages only have time to stop at 1 city per country. If the viewpoint is on state-benefit, then yes. National benefit, then maybe no - left hand fight right hand. Im very skeptical on the involvement of China in all these projects. Usually we see much of these condo's being bought by them as investments (Forest City). If the project is bought to completion, then these residences will remain empty as they will mostly be just holiday villas. I'm also not sure what other terms did the Najib administration negotiate with China - China focus isn't just earning a few bucks, usually they've a far greater motivation in political or strategic interests. Malaysia's governance has never been transparent so we will never know.

[@Nicaway]

@@johntan2346 I suspect the Masterplan is done by the Chinese, the styling looks very similar to Forest City. China led/biased projects tend to be heavy on infrastructure per their expertise. Frankly, it might just be to inflate the project cost and to position themselves as invaluable to the project. At the end, the only Chinese company that remain engaged is a reclamation company. You're right in that similar objectives can very likely be achieved just by using existing coastlines. Furthermore, if you were to take a visit to Forest City, the coasts on the artificial island is pretty shitty - definitely not a beach you'd wanna walk on.

[@miketan4803]

Port Klang already exists, so why not just enlarge / enhance that? how will port klag fare? did they do feasibility study? how do they plan to pull 60% of Port of Singapore business? Especially since a lot had to do w/ the oil refining business based in Singapore. Has the cruise business bounced back yet?

[@stevenkwan5589]

All down to corruption btw China and Malaysia garmen. They dun bother Port Klang since new development can give them big corruption money. Building an artificial land as port handling cargo vessel is a BIG DREAM ! How do stabilise a land stand alone within a few year ??? Sure crumble to pieces and talking only eco system problems.

[@sunnychew905]

its not about financial feasibility, suspect it's more on money going into somebody's pockets 😂😂

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

It's called "vanity project" a.k.a. "i need to showcase that my leek is longer than others" project aimed for political mileages for certain types of people.

[@casab654]

Bro.. port klang / port Penang / pasir gudang water seabed too shallow for their Warship to park la … so they buy & built la… those CCP claim later submarine need to guard the straight melaka .

[@muzammilm.nurdin3349]

Too ghetto

[@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko]

The project was scaled down from a port to a cruise terminal and the resized project is now valued at RM682 million, which is considerably smaller than the reported RM40 billion for the entire development of all four islands.

[@tanpengjoo7205]

Every projects and plans are always beautiful on drawing but end up becomes ghost towns wasting resources, just one words all due to greed that caused all hardship to ordinary folks suffering and damaged to environmental issues and lose of animals and living species of their habitats.

[@jayaseelaninaseemuthi8126]

❤

[@idoit5005]

before you do anything big in malaysia, spend some time in the country to observe the people, their lifestyle and habits, what business works and doesn't. how on earth did they think such a project like this could be supported and maintained?

[@limseongkang2163]

just want the kickbacks, then disappear.

[@chaoyoong9987]

someone coined 2020 Malaysia Boleh = Malaysia Can...except it should have been Malaysia CAN'T (tak boleh)... in August 1996 a fanfare announcement of MSC - zone where digital etc will build smart city etc -fizzled out because no brains to be tapped hence expats to man this project resulting in flop...then Forest City flops and Melaka Gateway flops...all these mega projects only line the pocket books of the current PM at that time

[@stormtrooper2170]

Corruption n bribery play a major rule. You need to fill the pockets of everyone involve.. No money..No talk.👈🤣🤣🤣✌️

[@frankchong5585]

Msia never short of ports. We have Penang, KL and Johor ports that competing so adding new ports will only spell disaster. This new Melaka Gateway should be more on tourism focus. I do think they will have higher chance of success with artificial beach coast (or island ) type of resort hotels tourism (west Msia seems short of it). Theme park is another of it but sustainability is always a challenge. Anyway, all these will equally doom without proper infra support, just the traffic alone entering Melaka will kill

[@danielsim7542]

Similar outcome as Forest city.... too many korup or parasites.

[@penukulbesi4006]

This is not the corruption of the project. Chinese failed because of the bankruptcy of the pandemic period, after all, it does not help the local population, just the Chinese investors.

[@RUHappyATM]

@@penukulbesi4006 The PRC is not your friend.

[@LeeSkJohn-sv8wi]

Same fate with Forrest city Johore. Project needs people to be successful. Yet Malaysia once made mm2h so difficult that even existing applicants left for other countries.

[@chooiseah1377]

Same wine in new bottles...😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😉😉😉😉😉😉

[@mathanjay1758]

Sold to china 😢

[@AlbertHarris-q2v]

Competing with Penang ? What Malacca got to offer ? Narrow lane to town Center , Saturday and Sunday massive jam

[@JusticeJo]

And too many traffic lights and also road closures for the sake of tourism.

[@cen6wkf]

Maybe we can do educational tours for those who want to see abandoned projects as tourist attractions. 🙄

[@bert3856]

Agreed 100%! That's "thinking out of the box"!👍

[@Adam_Johari]

Greedy leaders who will approve any project for a %.

[@raymondlimkitsiang3847]

Najib was a greedy leader but he approved these projects for commission from his Chinese friend Low Taek Jho, who was Penang born and a staunch supporter of Chinese DAP. DAP protected Low Taek Jho from prosecution in return for bribes. Lim Guan Eng is linked to the criminal Low Taek Jho who holds a Cyprus passport.

[@emanuel.is.suffering]

@@raymondlimkitsiang3847 Really? I didn't know that. Can you tell me more about that?

[@OPMatar]

You included a good analysis of the challenges that the project will face at the end.

[@DumpTheDollar]

As a trade port it was a non starter because Melaka has no industrial base to feed the port.

[@StarCrystal9]

Another ego - again!

[@loorobert6430]

Port may not be useful. But what about the bridge to Sumatra to attracts more tourists 😊.

[@johnblend5483]

​@@loorobert6430afraid there is tourist VS burglar,since their buying power is struggle vs income,

[@TheTeaParty320]

I’m so proud of our Portuguese community. You guys are all heroes.

[@Kangayam_]

🤣

[@Muhammad-c3v7q]

Wow. Communist

[@damansara71]

It was initiated by a scammer from middle east. He ran away after getting loans

[@happyandenjoychannel1016]

Sabah and sarawak need more development

[@raymondng1146]

Better than sakau by our elite...

[@PL-lt3wz]

It's all about the Mooney. How could a minor problem like a protest sink a mega-mega project?

[@drbilltay]

why use different country riot video?

[@Lu5ck]

Reclaiming land when you got plenty of cheap lands and wonder why it fail, you don't need to be university educated to understand this basic economy.

[@kengleetan63]

This is the way the Bumi work besides having corruption. Which is why after nearly over 70 yrs after WW2, they are largely still the same. It has to do with how the country is run along Islamic religious lines and the culture of the Bumi.

[@damansara71]

@@kengleetan63 corruption was and still given by your kind. Yall brought the culture here and practices comprehensively. Don't try to talk like your kind are clean . BS

[@matzmn]

The state and national governments do not do proper viability studies on any mega project especially the ones involving investors from China. They are always very quick to be impressed with the scale of the project without thinking whether it will work financially or not. The Chinese are keen on them because they can make money from the construction works. Take this project and ECRL for example. Both of which are ridiculous projects. For ECRL, how many companies would be stupid enough to send their cargo from Port Klang to the Kuantan port by train. They might as well ship the goods from Port Klang. How many people will take the passenger trains from Kelantan and Terengganu to KL on weekdays? I am sure ECRL will start making huge losses once it is operational. This is how many many countries fell into the Chinese debt trap. There is nothing wrong with working with them but the project must be viable and makes sense in the first place.

[@WumingBoshi-oe9yu3ib7p]

Clearly it was the fault of the state and national government, which approved their ambitious project!

[@johnblend5483]

And all the contractor are from mainland,using their worker from mainland and all machinery are imported from their country and even 1 screw and nuts also didnt buy from our local store...ha ha.....malu apa bussku😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@frankiekimtee3181]

You are negative mindset like Tony Pau,, tak boleh Harapan lah

[@RUHappyATM]

It's not a flop...for the consultants who got a few years' employment out of it.

[@petertoday5747]

No longer viable...a little too late. Even the cruise terminal will take a beating when tourist arrivals from these huge cruiseliners see the ugly abandoned and uncompleted buildings . Such an awful scene to behold.😢

[@yacsf]

Malaysia has to built High Speed Rail to connect from Singapore to China to replace air travel. Future of air travel will cause more unpredictable turbulence

[@casab654]

Adui .. banjaran titiwangsa not allow for development due to prevent communist ransoms … now u want built a road to communist headquarter ka ?

[@ghostoforion1745]

Delusion 100😂

[@kqilim]

you know how long it takes via rail?

[@John.Doe.A.D33R]

All thanks to the Ambitious, Uneducated yet Corrupted politicians & governments 🤫

[@alexgomel5805]

Still exists uneducated unscrupulous clowns known as politicians.

[@alexgomel5805]

So how much do we owe China. Debts debts and more debts.

[@DarkMeyer777]

In Malaysian university, one of our core module in public civil service administration programme is playing SimCity. In fact, if you pass that module, you are guaranteed graduation and an iron ricebowl for life. Best of all, you need to keep playing the expansion pack and built the best cities to rise up the corporate ladder after you get a job in civil service administration

[@imran8880]

What wtf which Uni is that? I would kill to have a class playing SimCity

[@fahmimike4999]

Spending money to rural area is considered wasting money but spending large funds on a single useless project will give economy impact to surroundings. Bribery at its best!! Long Live Malaysia!!!

[@SuccessforLifester]

Can i check if your 10B is USD or Malaysia Ringgit?

[@bacontaur]

The main problem I feel would be lack of feasibility study and long term planning and systematic implementation 😅

[@carrotsak]

When will we get HSR?

[@tanchye1720]

Yeah. How can you mix container ports and tourist ‘hot sport’ Singapore is relocating their final few container ports to the mega Tuas port, away from the commercial areas.

[@danielmathai4780]

Nobody has the appetite for such big ticket projects these days anymore...especially after COVID and the resulting economic downturn

[@crafael.]

I still remember when the sales person of this project handed me this mega project flyers. the price is reasonable for a marina city (comparison to Phuket, Langkawi). I almost signed for booking. almost. I only ask 1 question. if this is marina city, where is the berth? can you believe? they have no plan to build a berth in marina city?

[@redmi4a375]

Interesting 🤔. Forgot about this mega project totally. 2014-2024 - only 10 years time space yet so much as happened and is still happening. Well, like the Chinese believe - Feng Shui Lun Lao Chuen - can we blame the wind and water elements or the shortsightedness, or lack of foresight or man s limited ability to control his fate and fortune??? However despite the odds it is a wise decision is to scale down the project and salvage whatever one can to minimise losses.

[@ccchamoxa]

Anything that requires a place like Malaysia to reclaim land immediately points to corruption. Why ? shortage of land ???

[@graceair3118]

The project needs to create job for Malaysian! If it doesn't, it will not do Malaysia any good.

[@hushpuppykl]

The whole area is like a ghost town. Previous development in that area of shoplots (built but unoccupied), a mall (abandoned and incomplete) and smaller hotels are not doing well. The idea is good but the project is way too grand.

[@salimkamaruddin8074]

when they announce such mega projects, first in their minds were, how much they can gets, whether the projects is viable or not is irrelevant

[@Zichoe]

turns out that cruise terminal is not bad at all, i would support that but not the rest

[@ongweelim6030]

Wow very nice project. I would like to move there if they can complete the project

[@shakilsayed490]

The strange thing is that everywhere before a project is approved it is subject to a lot of scrutiny. Among which the people involved the communities etc. had they not protested BEFORE THE FIRST land was moved? Were they not heard. The PM himself was opposed to the project and still it went fwd? Was that to prove that there is a better democratic system there than anywhere? What a wasteof everything.

[@pangkiatloh4555]

Malacca Gateway becomes Malacca Hellway. Malaysia mega projects are like Chicken Boops, warm & hot at the beginning then cold & abandon at the end.

[@tajabdullah.malaysia]

Masy'Allah Allahuakbar Permudahkan urusan kami semuanya aamiin 😊😊😊😊Hello 👋.. NAMPAK GAYA KENA JUGAK MAKAN LUNCH..GULAI HIJAU IKAN SIAM N TERUNG..ALAMAK 😭😩😞🤤🤤✌️

[@wiseme11]

Melaka is a dead city. Investors learned their lessons well. Poor infrastructure. The road access to this man made island is small and narrow. Traffic jam always. Don't waste your time.

[@ChinchillaBONK]

Failed because Malaysia tak boleh. 😂

[@TheBebemom]

The title should be why can’t any projects succeed in Malaysia!?

[@masdemon1]

For those MNC wanting to invest in Malaysia...think again

[@NewmaticKe]

Never short on ideas

[@spathania011]

Investment in malaysia is always risky..coz Govt. Itself is not sure what to do😅😅😅😅

[@reezevlog]

im a Malaysian..this project was a failure to start with..in the beginning…. greedy people behind this project…

[@spaideman7043]

easier to ask which msia megaproject didn't fail

[@adrianooi7454]

a mosque was built on the Melaka Gateway, and since then, no one is allowed to sell alcohol. Brilliant.

[@cannotdecideusername]

Basically, it flops because of insufficient prep and studies needed before the project starts.

[@wrxsti22b]

Do they give a date when it will be completed and operating?

[@stormryder4305]

It is it easy to daydreaming, without concerning the practicality of such dream. Tourists won't flock just because all the luxuries in the middle of nowhere that only a handful people know.

[@malgudidays3311]

You guys don't get it ! The aim from the onset was for the project to fail and be written off. The main purpose is to secure contracts for the politicians and cronies. From contracts, fast bucks are made. The next mega project will be in Trengganu. They are planning to build a data centre there.

[@betoo1769]

Damn . I thought forest city in johor is the worst . It happens Melaka also suffer with this 😅😅

[@___Danny___]

look at hainan phoenix project , they also reclaimed land to build malls and condo whereas there’s still plenty of land on hainan island.

[@kng5451]

Wiki " Melaka Gateway is an off-shore development of artificial islands in Malacca, Malaysia. It was launched on 7 February 2014 by Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib ..." says everything ..

[@RyeonLok]

Some of the image and video is not taken in melaka but sowmwhere else

[@geraldmanuelsantos]

is this the future of Manila Bay Reclamation Projects?

[@FirdausIzam]

The developer once came to promote the project in Penang. I happened to be in conversation with the salesperson. Luckily I opted not to buy into their promises.

[@tatfamsoon9844]

counted myself lucky too. When they developer promoted the project in Singapore many years ago, I almost bought one residential unit. Luckily, I had not signed on the dotted lines. 😅

[@petebngyn]

A commercial port in front of a touristic mini city would look pretty ugly.

[@Man-gw6gy]

Right...... Maglev 500 GEMAS - BENTONG- MACHANG- YALA - HADYAI - SURAT THANI - BANGKOK This HSR runs on ELEVATED TRACK all along at the Speed 500 km per hour using Magnetic Levitation Train.. The total cost some Rm 300 billions

[@oldtabrough1026]

I have been to both Malacca and Penang tourist spots. Honestly speaking, i would rather spend my tourist dollars in Penang than Malacca. Sorry to say, there is not much tourist attractions in Malacca as compared to Penang

[@rameliahmad8407]

orang Msia di negeri2 lain pun tak berapa tahu pasal perkara ni ,projek yang begitu besar.

[@hairipadzil9356]

Please read more about SMWEZ project😅 and fyi, the project has to be stopped for a period of time (dunno when will it end) becuase of objection from Unesco. Currently, they are asking again permission from Unesco to allow them to do development there😅😊

[@kingsteveo]

Why don’t just they spend the money to enhance the utilities, maintain and re-improve the existing facilities and properties.

[@ExitTwo888]

Others races would not but malays are very interested and good at building ghost towns in the past and in the future. Why ?

[@asia.network5475]

racist!

[@massalleh5255]

Malays just want the % from the projects but it's the Chinese who wants to pour the money so maybe you can ask the Chinese instead?

[@loorobert6430]

Why not convert the ghost town to moveitown just like Hollywood.

[@massalleh5255]

@@loorobert6430 that's what they plan to do with Forest City. Only this time with Korean involvement

[@TheEverest72]

@@loorobert6430Bolehwood?

[@thanakunjamboo3842]

It was powerchina's idea, or rather the ccp's idea. This would have been a secondary shipping dock. The reason being the close proximity to the south china sea. The residential project in johor, which has also stalled, is to place their personnel. Remember the port in gebeng, which was totally closed to the public eye, is also for the same reason. Once all this is set, china controls the whole south china sea's trading route

[@thanakunjamboo3842]

Case in example, the hambantota port in sri lanka.

[@johnblend5483]

And its happen during most corrupted leader which took attention from world media.....he put much donut to old people at the village and felda to shutdown their mouth and gain support,but younger and educated voters dont fool to kick him out....yeahh...Gebeng story thats nobody talk so much,media also threaten to shut down their mouth from cover any story og Gebeng

[@ryokolynn6948]

Any mega building projects that links with any china's enterprise were deem to end in failure. Malaysia sure paid a extreme high price to learn.

[@shengyi1701]

As Debbie Gibson would sing about all these projects- It was only in my dreams!

[@spanishjo4282]

Who is the winner in this project?

[@johnblend5483]

The Kayangan Won the prize😂😂😂

[@xavierthomas3214]

Truly Malaysian dilemma.Politicians with grandiose dreams.Not so great at working out details.

[@danishsahin5093]

to gain something we have to lose something. A lot of old malls can be rebuild as something else like a park

[@donaldjoseph3903]

No worries. China will come in to support💪🖐

[@frankchong5585]

There is a pattern of it. If one do notice, the bigger project it is, the higher chance it will fail. So far most of the MEGA billions project all fail in one way or another

[@Woo-b9l]

Working hard is not so easy for local people to enjoy it.

[@___Danny___]

there are abundant land in malaysia, why would the project reclaim land in the first place ?

[@MawangHujan-fl2zn]

And they steal Sand in Indonesia. Several times, Indonesian Authority caught Malaysian Ships that are stealing sand in Indonesia. Singaporean Ships also steal sand in Indonesia to enlarge their land.

[@judymckee5992]

People need to look at all the shoddy construction of the existing ones and run from buying all these garbage of so call construction. I am wondering who sign off all these completed projects!

[@dinghonkim1069]

Any type of projects the bigger the. better . Malaysia always Boleh .

[@simmenghai161]

I don't think it's linked to the Chinese. It's more like too much political intervention. When will politicians stop involving in private sector projects. Don't they learn every time they intervene, they are putting Malaysia decades behind Singapore? If this continues I think one day they will stop getting support from the core of the popular support, the very Malays.

[@frankiekimtee3181]

We needed Najib to progress

[@BC-ox4yo]

As an Architect. The mistake of the Project is the Intern. Port. You can not have 6* or 7* luxury hotel and condominiums with the Intern. Port before them and blocking the view plus endless of daily trucks moving goods on bridge that does not exist on the model. The Architects of this project are completely idiots.

[@F3arlessWarriorMindset]

From the outside, Melaka Gateway Mega Project looks like it’s unfinished and a failure. But for a few dozen business men, the project was a mega success based on their increase in personal wealth 😂

[@ChrisG-om9uy]

Did you mean politicians?

[@realDarrenBon]

Melaka is not meant to be a vertical city like KL. If Melaka becomes exactly like KL (full of skyscrapers & high rises), who on earth wants to come to Melaka?? Might as well just lepak in KL. Save petrol. No need to drive 150km++. Melaka must remain in its original form. Historic shophouses, Melaka river, Jonker Street, kampung houses, low density living, Portuguese settlement, you name it.

[@PauldeSilvaG]

Incompetent then. Incompetent today.

[@shanelambert6192]

Seems to always be the same Prime minister with cancelled projects. Guy probably set Malaysia back 20 years

[@myenamjonie124]

Mega project and sort doesn't keep in mind the population in Malaysia. We just 30 million not billion population like china, still we struggle with economy and minimum wage. Plus with the different culture from other country, best to describe Malaysian are 'Unmaterialistic, chill and spoiled'. The term laid back country for retired people are not wrong actually.

[@wawanmuldiantoro7159]

Actually this is beautiful project. Too bad it failed.

[@BlackCarlos-60]

Another example Melaka Tram Project launched by Najib. What the heck happen to it? Anybody got rich?