Maritime Press Clippings 2012 - Hydrex Underwater Technology

DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2012 – 209In a move to boost business and improve efficiency at the country’s seaports, the government has called on severalarms of state port operator Pelabuhan Indonesia to set up a container terminal company. The seaport operators thatwill be affected are Pelindo I, Pelindo II, Pelindo III and Pelindo IV. State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said inJakarta on Tuesday that the four state companies had agreed to set up a container terminal facility called Peti KemasIndonesia. “[The establishment] of the company is almost complete,” Dahlan said after holding a meeting at Gambirrailway station in Jakarta. The establishment of PKI is meant to boost coordination and cooperation among seaportoperators in handling cargo shipment in the country’s main seaports.Pelindo II handles the operation of 12 ports, including Teluk Bayur in Padang, West Sumatra; Jambi in Jambi;Palembang in South Sumarta; Banten in Banten province; and Tanjung Priok and Sunda Kelapa in North Jakarta. Italso operates Cirebon in West Java. Pelindo I handles several large ports in the northern part of Sumatra, includingBelawan in Medan, North Sumatra. Belawan is known as one of Indonesia’s main commodity ports.Dahlan said the container terminal company was expected to supervise the operations of all shipping and other relatedactivities in all the country’s seaports. “All the container terminal activities and operations will be supervised by PetiKemas,” he said. Dahlan also said the supervision by one single entity would improve efficiency. He said the containerterminal activities in other ports such as in Medan, Batam, Surabaya, Makassar and Sorong, West Papua, would bebetter supervised and monitored, which in turn would increase overall efficiency.The minister did not disclose the financial details of the company, though he did say that the four seaport operatorshad a strong financial position. Let’s wait within this week when we have details of the investment plan,” Dahlan said.Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta is the busiest port in the archipelago, handling almost 50 percent of the country’s totalexport and import activities. It is also operating at its maximum capacity. Pelindo II plans to spend Rp 52.6 trillion($5.6 billion) in the next two years to build three new seaports in the country in a move to help reduce logistics costsand container congestion.R.J. Lino, president director of Pelindo II, said on June 27 that the company would build a Rp 22.6 trillion port, calledNew Priok, in Kalibaru, seven kilometers west of Tanjung Priok. The state-controlled enterprise also plans to buildports in Sorong and in Tanjung Sauh, Batam, which would cost Rp 10 trillion and Rp 20 trillion respectively.The Kalibaru project would include three container terminals, an oil and gas terminal and a seven-kilometer toll roadlinking it to Tanjung Priok. Lino said the company had secured an Rp 11 trillion loan from Bank Mandiri for the firstphase of construction, which will start this month. Source : Jakarta GlobeThe tanker IBLEA departing Western Port for Port Botany. It loaded crude oil for discharge at Caltex Port Botany.Photo : William T Barber ©Irregularities confirmed in Paita andCallao concessionsThe report into the concession process undertaken for the North Terminal at the Peruvian port of Callao and also ofthe port of Paita has concluded that there were irregularities in both operations.In Paita, the existing concessionaire, Terminales Portuarios Euroandino, is said to not have been correctly registered,not have had sufficient capital to bid and not have met formal requirements set out in the tender process. In the caseof the APM Terminals bid at Callao, it was noted that the original $1.9bn investment offered became just $750m whenthe eventual contract document was drawn up. In related news, the privatisation of the North Terminal containerDistribution : daily to 22500+ active addresses 27-07-2012 Page 16