Pelindo trains managers

JAKARTA (JP): The Netherlands-based International Institute for Infrastructural Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering agreed yesterday to provide a training program for middle executives of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo), the state-owned port management company.

The agreement on the training program was signed in Surabaya, East Java, in the presence of Netherlands Minister for Transportation and Public Works A. Jorritama-Lebbink and Indonesia's Director General for Sea Transportation Soentoro.

Pelindo's executives will follow a training program of the Dutch institute on port management and carry out a comparative study on port operations in the Netherlands under the cooperation agreement, which will last for 10 years.(hen)