Westports Holdings Bhd is charting a course for sustainable growth amidst a mixed outlook for global trade in a high interest rate environment. Adding wind to its sails is the rising foreign direct investment (FDI) in Malaysia and still robust Intra-Asia trade growth.

Group managing director Datuk Ruben Emir Gnanalingam tells StarBizWeek that businesses can no longer predict consumption patterns using historical data due to the divergence from the typical alignment of economic indicators.