Data interchange for port

Data interchange for port

JAKARTA (JP): PT Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia (EDII)
will soon operate to improve the transaction system at Tanjung
Priok seaport.

EDII, established with an investment of Rp 10 billion (US$4.58
million), is equally owned by PT Sisindosat Lintasbuana, an
information technology company affiliated with state-run PT
Indosat, and PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II, the state-owned company
assigned to manage a number of seaports, including Tanjung Priok.

Indosat's project manager for business development, Widya
Purnama, told reporters before delivering a presentation at a
seminar on electronics transactions here yesterday that the two
companies will sign the join venture agreement next month.

He said that the new firm has procured software facilities
from General Electric of the United States.

Freight forwarders, shipping, retail and health care firms, as
well as their business partners are expected to be the customers
of the new company, whose services will ease paperwork, thereby
helping to facilitate the flow of goods at the port.

Charges for the service will include enrollment fees, monthly
fees and volume utilization fees.(icn)