Vision

To be a key driver in the Sabah Government’s efforts in making Sabah a high income and industrialized State (Echoing Malaysian government’s call to attain the status of a newly industrialized country).

Mission

• Striving hard to exploit the potential of POIC Lahad Datu in tandem with the Sabah Maju Jaya Development Plan (2021-2025)
• To transform POIC Lahad Datu as a logistics hub in the region capitalizing on the Lombok-Makassar Straits
• To explore and develop new industries such as the bio, chemicals and other related fields
• To add higher value in both the upstream and downstream production chains
• To strengthen Sabah’s competitive edge in the palm oil industry by engaging with industry stakeholders through research, development and technology inputs
• To promote POIC as the logistics distribution and bulk-break hub for ASEAN in line with its geographical centrality to ASEAN
• To source, consolidate and process resources from the BIMP-EAGA region and beyond

Key Objective

• Provide basic and advanced infrastructure
• Bridge between private and public sectors in realizing industrial potentials

Sector Focus

• Palm oil industry to continue as core sector for development especially biomass, high value palm oil downstream
• Port and logistics
• Oil & Gas
• Other supporting developments: Industrializing resource based sectors (timber, aquaculture, food etc)
• Free Trade Zone, Tender Port, Commodity trading futures