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Containers piling up at Jakarta port
Fri, 10/03/2008 11:33 AM | Business
About 5,000 containers without clear status and ownership are currently piling up at the Tanjung Priok port, an association says.
Indonesian Association of Importers and Exporters (GINSI) chairman Amiruddin Saud said the association estimated around 5,000 containers currently remained unloaded at the port.
"Some of them have been there for two, five and even ten years," Amiruddin said as quoted by Antara news agency Thursday.
"It is no longer clear who owns the containers."
Amiruddin said that under the current regulation, the government owned the containers 30 days after their arrival if they were not handled by their owners or importers.
"The government should have decided on these container status a long time ago. They can be sold through an auction. Many people will need these containers for across-island shipments," he said, adding the containers could also be used for emergency housing.
The containers need to be removed immediately to pave the way for thousands of incoming containers from all over the world, he said.
Businessmen believed the containers were abandoned after authorities suspected the content to have been smuggled or underinvoiced -- a practice of not reporting the true amount or the type of the goods. -- JP/Alfian
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Maximo (not verified) — Wed, 10/08/2008 - 6:35pm
Once again..this is another sign that clearly shows Indonesia is not making the progress, it would like the world to believe themselves for that matter. Corruption and lack of applied 'modus operandi' being at the root of the problem.
Lately, many have boasted how Indonesia's economy is stable and seemingly unaffected by the current credit and markets crises...this too is another farce which received a wake-up call today when the Indonesian stock market dropped 10%.
I think it's time to take cover and wait for the shit to hit the fan..a word of advice for exporters of indonesian products: now we're on the strong side so start squeezing suppliers as much as you can...prices have been too high across the board..unjustified prices, ridiculous prices which much too often have been justified due to 'high costs'..yeah whatever..more like they've been living it up on pure laziness, bureaucracy, corruption just to name a few...now its the exporters turn to squeeze them and get some realistic prices.
Duc (not verified) — Wed, 10/08/2008 - 7:29am
I await now for 4 months for a small part for my car that the importer says is not yet able to proceed from Singapore due to a 'RED LIGHT' situation in Indonesian port. I really do-not know how any business that has to be involved in bringing in or sending out goods via Indonesian ports can operate and survive under these conditions. I can only assume that it is all about the same old cancer that is riddled through the nation and prevents it from being great.
Hans dieter kurt (not verified) — Tue, 10/07/2008 - 9:00am
The writer forget to tell, that most of this containers maid be as well imports, which was under pressure by the authorities, even the market import price is overstressed so the importer cannot make any profit, this is happen various times in the last Years to our company as well, as the 'bea cukai' custom is fixing invoice prices out of heaven to make extra profits, and who know what they have more in mind to do.
a badly burnt importer