Today, tuesday sept 13th, 2016 president jokowi together with coordinating minister of maritime luhut pandjaitan and minister of transportation inaugurated the new priok container terminal Kalibaru.
The president still highlights on the effort of related authorities to decrease the dwelling time to 2.2 days only. It is indispensable for compettitiveness in term of logistic and long period of dwelling time has made a big loss in commerce sector.
Last time, when jokowi visited the port, the dwelling time is still 6-7 days long. It slowly progresses better through the new breakthrougs of related insitution under ministry of transportation.
Earlier, president has received the reports from minister of transportation budi karya and director of pelindo II elvyn g massasya. However, there is different version of which director pelindo II reported dwelling time has reached 3.2 days meanwhile according to minister of transportation is 3.7 days.
However, jokowi did not matter much on the version.
"It is between the two. I asked 2.2 and not stop at 3.2 days I would be happy", said the president.
He added that the hasten of development is necessary since the country is still lacking of terminals. He wants the establishment of phase 2,3 and two terminal products will be finished by 2019.
After the finishing of NPCT1 the capacity of priok's terminal will add 1.5 million teus more. Container handling capacity of priok port which seemingly around 5 million in 20009-2010 has been settled in short term through terminal configuration, equipments provided and well management now has reached 7 million teus per year.
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