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/Pendulum�…
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…