The STAR, November 5th, 2002 - Westport has introduced an electronic payment card StarTag cashless, which could be; used by its employee at 11 retail outlets and the Mobil petrol kiosk; located at the port area.

According to its project manager N. Vijendran, apart from serving as payment card, STARTAG cashless could also be used as time attendance and medical treatment card at panel clinics.

He said in a statement that with the card employees had a flexible option of additional topping-up of monthly cash limit.

The card allows Westport employees to spend up to RM20 per day and RM200 per month.

"To promote the card and encourage its usage, the 1,800 Westport employees were given a nondeductible starter bonus of RM20.

By the middle of last month, more than RM103,000 turnover had been recorded at the 12 participating outlets, which indicated a good reception," Vijendran said.