Many factors caused
logistics cost borne by companies to be high today. One of the underlying
factors was inadequate infra-structure which was not supportive to logistics
process from harbor to delivery. For that matter the Government was resolved to
reform the harbor sector as an effort to enhance efficiency.
The Director General of Sea Transportation, Ministry of
Transportation, Bobby R. Mamahit stated in Jakarta on Monday [13/1] that the Government
planned to reform harbor’s infra structure this year. The Government planned to
apply single window procedure in the management of freight documents and
loading and unloading process to be carried out by on line.
Bobby said that the Government would increase the number
of harbor doors to speed up traffic of goods so there should be no queue at the
harbor. Besides, harbor management, especially in terms of increasing harbor’s
capacity to support logistics would be improved. For that matter, the Ministry
of Communication had allocated budget of Rp6 trillion for building of harbor
infra-structure. Bobby stated that the budget would be spent on completing,
continuing and building new harbors which were strategic for passengers or
logistics.
Beside the above measures, in the effort to reform harbor
as a whole, Bobby said, today the Ministry of Transportation was concentrating
effort on detecting suspects who made illegal collection especially in Tanjung
Priok operational area Jakarta. Bobby said that he had commanded the Sea on
Coastland Security Force [KPLP] to crackdown on any person who picked up
illegal collection.
However did not state the deadline for the investigation
process which disadvantaged the harbor consumers. According to Bobby, so far he
was still at the stage of investigation. Furthermore he confirmed that there
was nothing new about illegal collection. Although this was to set up a
one-stop service to prevent face-to-face contact between officials and
consumers.
Meanwhile General Manager of Pelindo II Tanjung Priok Ari
Heryanto said that the Tanjung Priok was enhancing efficiency at al levels of
harbor service by applying IT which was integrated with all related
institutions to step up efficiency toward the AEC in 2015. By 2014 all activities
in harbor service system would be IT based and ready to meet customers’ need.
The IT service system included also single billing system
for all types of sea freight service and loading-unloading of goods as well as
containers in terminal 1, 2 and 3 conventional or multi-purpose harbor at
Tanjung Priok. Ari was expecting that all logistics operators including
exporters and importers at Tanjung Priok harbor would support the IT-integrated
efficiency ehanchment plan.
Ari had met several times with stakeholders at Tanjung
Priok harbor, today there was even port community in which there was even port
community in which there was also businesspeople who would give their input for
harbor development at Tanjung Priok harbor. He also disclosed land management
program to increase storage capacity of stacked goods and containers at the
harbor. (SS)
Business News - January 17, 2014
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