KOTA KINABALU: Sabah's growth potential as a trading hub can be ascertained from its trade increase volume of RM10 billion in 2000 with a positive trade surplus in excess of RM6 billion to RM34.9 billion in 2016. with positive trade surplus of more than RM20 billion.
Just as the tourism sector potential is always there, but only boomed the last few years providing much employment opportunities, so would the industry's processed goods in future that can be exported other than oil palm and oil and gas produce.
Source:
Daily Express, Thursday, October 12, 2017.