Indonesia Seafarers Union (KPI) calls for judicial review of Law (UU) No18/2017 on the protection of migrant workers to Constitutional Court (MK). The regulation, according to KPI, does not clearly accommodate the position of protection for Indonesian seafarers working abroad. “We think that the law has not touched the substance of protecting Indonesian seafarers who…
The merger of state port operators into one Pelindo is expected to cut logistics costs and trigger economic growth. But how it will do it since the port is not a single factor in total logistics cost? On the official announcement for the merger of state ports operators (Pelindo I-IV) on September 1, 2021, the…
Logistics business players positively welcome the adoption of Single Truck Identity Document (STID) at Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta. The chairman of ALFI DKI Jakarta Adil Karim said logistics and forwarders hope that the STID adoption is the first step for the Priok port. In the future, this port is also expected to implement a digitalized-based…
The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, has partnered with social enterprise The Plastic Flamingo (The PLAF) to scale up collection of plastic waste and tackle marine plastic pollution in the Philippines. Together, CMA CGM and the PLAF will collect 120 metric tons of plastic waste to be upcycled in Metro…
The performance of the sea toll (Tol Laut) since its launch in 2016, has continued to increase both in terms of routes, the number of ports call, the capacity of ships, and the number of cargoes, according to Ministry of Transportation. On his remark speech for opening the Sea Toll Virtual Coordination Meeting with the…
Taiwan’s intra-Asia carrier TS Line plans an IPO, probably in Hong Kong, next year, according to the chairman of the company, Chen Te-sheng. A general manager at Wan Hai Lines before establishing TS Lines in 2001, Chen said the timing was right for a listing, with the company set to post its best-ever results this…
Two new carriers on the route have chartered small containerships to carry their own cargo and tap the lucrative spot market in what Alphaliner sees as a possible trend in the making. Italian logistics company Rif Line has chartered two 1,100-1,200 TEU ships for around a year to ply between Asia and the port of…
In the 4th series of Logistics Webinar forum that was hosted by Angkasa Pura Logistik (APLog), one of PT Angkasa Pura I’s (Persero) subsidiaries, The Secretary-General of Asperindo (the Association of Indonesian Express Delivery, Posts, and Logistics), Trian Yuserma said, his side is ready to support the global logistics report. By working together on the…
Boxship charter rates are now more than double, since the previous peak, which occurred about sixteen years back, in 2005, with an increase of about 128%. The ever-growing container crunch and reports of port congestions around the world, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, rough weather conditions, the Suez Canal crisis of March and more, have…
Hong Kong-based container shipping and logistics company Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL) has ordered ten 16,000 TEU containerships in China, a move that further expands the rapidly growing global orderbook for box vessels. As informed, five boxships will be built at Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering and five at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering….
