Tanjung Priok now can serve giant ships,ready to compete with Singapore in logistic services

A 334-m long giant ship called “Otello” docked and unloaded several containers at Jakarta International Container Terminal, TanjungPriok Port Jakarta, on Su
A 334-m long giant
ship called “Otello” docked and unloaded several containers at Jakarta
International Container Terminal, TanjungPriok Port Jakarta, on Sunday (April
23, 2017).
The ship was one of
many giant ships docked in Indonesia under the flag of a France cruise company,
Compagnie Maritime d’Affretement-Compagnie Generali Maritime (CMA-CGM).
Previously, two giant
ships, CMA-CGM Titus and Tancredi, also docked at the port as reported by
Kompas.com in “JICT even more prepared to serve giant ships” article (April 25,
2017).
“These CMA-CGM ships were served with reliable speed and productivity. They
were the biggest ever to dock since the establishment of Priok,” JICT President
Director,GuntaPrabawa, said in his statement on Tuesday.
CMA-CGM Otello ships
itselfcarries 8,238 TEUs. Previously the biggest ship ever to dock at Priok
only carried 3,000 TEUs.
Deep and Cheap
Gunta said that,
after the arrival of the ships, CMA-CGM agreed to enter a partnership with PT
JICT to open a new service called Java South East Asia Express Services/Java
SEA Express Services/JAX Services.
“The service is
scheduled to depart once a week fromTanjungPriok to West Coast (Los Angeles and
Oakland) USA. CMA-CGM Titus served the maiden JAX Services journey that
departed on April 9, 2017,” Gunta said.
Previously, PT
Pelabuhan Indonesia II (Pelindo II) President Director Elvyn G Masassya showed
the benefits of using TanjungPriok as a logistic services international hub.
With the cargo
consolidation in TanjungPriok, export from several regions don’t have to go
through Singaporeanymore.
All this time, cargo
consolidation for export from several regions in Indonesia had to be done in
Singapore, as Elvynsaid to Kompas in article titled “If TanjungPriok port
becomes an international hub, logistics costs will go down” (January 30, 2017).
“Our simulation
estimated that the costs could be slashed by Rp1 million to Rp1.5 million if
export is consolidated throughTanjungPriok. Our main purpose is that we can
reduce the logistics costs, and consolidate cargos so that bigger ships could
enter,” she said regarding the logistics services.
TanjungPriok makes it
possible for ships as big as Otello to enter after PT Pelabuhan Indonesia
(Pelindo) II had their JICT docks dredged.
PT Pelindo II
Subsidiary Management Director RirySyeried Jetta said that before the dredging,
the depth of JICT docks was around minus 12-13 meters.
After the dredging,
now the depth is estimated to be around 13-14 meters, as cited from an article
on Kompas.com titled “JICT docks dredged to prepare them as transhipment port”.“Our
goal is to make the docks 16-meters deep bythis August,” Riry said on April 23,
2017.
Cost efficiency in
logistics services and the arrival of three giant French ships have improved
the world’s view on Indonesia. This also eases the work of domestic logistics
services, including the experienced SELOG.
The arrival of the
ships has opened a wide access for international trade, which will also be
supported by SELOG, under SerasiAutoraya (SERA), a subsidiary of Astra, which
guarantees a service of safety, punctuality, and zero defect.
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