Port management, customs office to boost services<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II, the state-owned firm
\nwhich manages the Tanjung Priok port and the Directorate General
\nof Customs and Excise yesterday assured importers that they would
\ncontinue improving services at the harbor.<\/p>\n
\"Pelabuhan and the customs office will improve coordination
\nand simplify procedures to help expedite the flow of imported
\ngoods at Tanjung Priok port,\" the port management company's
\npresident, Amir Harbani, told reporters after chairing a closed-
\ndoor three-hour meeting with electronics importers yesterday.<\/p>\n
The meeting was attended by port and customs officials,
\nexecutives of the Indonesian Importers' Association, the
\nIndonesian Freight and Forwarder Association and the Indonesian
\nElectronics Association and officials from the Directorate
\nGeneral of Sea Transportation.<\/p>\n
Executives of electronics companies PT Samsung Metrodata
\nElectronics, PT National Gobel, PT Sony Electronics Indonesia,
\nPT Maspion and PT Sharp Yasonta Indonesia also participated in
\nyesterday's meeting.<\/p>\n
Amir said that a number of meeting participants raised
\ncomplaints over poor handling at the container terminal due to
\ncomplicated bureaucratic procedures and poor berthing schedules,
\nwhich have often caused congestions and affected their business
\nactivities.<\/p>\n
\"We will make inventories of the customers' complaints and try
\nto make improvements,\" he said.<\/p>\n
According to Amir, Pelabuhan agreed to provide more locations
\nwithin the port for unloading goods.<\/p>\n
\"There are many locations (depots) within the port, with a
\ntotal capacity of about 10,500 twenty equivalent units (TEUs) and
\nthe container yard with a capacity of 24,000 TEUs,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"At the moment, the occupancy rate in the depots within the
\nforwarding ring is just 40 percent and we will allow a maximum of
\n70 percent,\" he added.<\/p>\n
Amir also said that the Directorate General of Customs and
\nExcise also agreed yesterday to provide better service by
\nsimplifying its procedures.<\/p>\n
He said such a meeting would be held periodically, probably
\nonce every two or three months, to create better services. (icn)<\/p>",
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