Ports are widely recognised as crucial nodes in international trade and transport. However, for various reasons, capacity does not always match demand: sometimes there is overcapacity, whereas in other cases, demand exceeds capacity and there is a shortage of the latter. This chapter therefore looks at where port congestion occurs, both globally and in the port-calling chain; it analyses actual…
The Indonesia's  economic growth has developed in line with world economic growth. This has  brought  increasing  in  Indonesia's  inter  islands  seaborne  trade.  In the purpose to connecting  Indonesia's  regions (Sumatera, Jawa, Kalimantan,  Sulawesi, and rest of the eastern  region), the Indonesia's government  brought the concept  of Indonesia' Pendulum/PendulumÂ…
From strategic intent to core competences to supply-chain relationships, companies have been forced by dynamic and intense competitive pressures to re-evaluate almost every aspect of their approach to conducting business. These re-evaluations have in turn led to the implementation of dramatic strategic initiatives that range from benchmarking to just-in-time to re-engineering to total quality m…
Over  the years, Port of TanjungPriok is the main National hub port in Indonesia that gives major contributions and is energizing the regional and national economy. Synergizing with the  improvement  of  national economy, Port of  TanjungPriok is  also experiencing a staggering container throughput increases especially in the last five years, that resulted in the existing capacity strug…