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View all search resultsLess return cargo from remains maritime highway challenge
Cargo ships returning empty from destination ports is a core challenge for the government’s so-called maritime highway five years after the programs initiation.
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Cargo ships returning empty from destination ports is a core challenge for the government’s so-called maritime highway five years after its initiation, officials and experts say.
The maritime highway program subsidizes shipping on certain routes for the distribution of basic and important consumer goods as well as steel and cement to remote regions of the archipelago.
The Transportation Ministry’s sea transportation director general, Agus Purnomo, said Monday that the government should do more to boost local industries in the program’s destination regions and increase the return cargo volume.
