Indonesia government appreciates Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) as this world’s number one container shipping continues repositioning empty container to the country in a bid to support export.
Thousand of boxes equivalent to more than 2,000 TUEs empty containers were unloaded from MSC Tianshan Containership at Indonesia’s leading port Tanjung Priok today, Thursday, January 13, 2021.
Tanjung Priok Port Authority Head Wisnu Handoko says appreciation to the shipping line (MSC) as it will help solve the country’s problem of container shortage for export. He calls exporters to optimize those empty containers for delivering Indonesia’s export commodities.
“We appreciate MSC of its consistent step to reposition empty containers to this port. Hopefully this will solve the problem of container shortage in the country, thus securing our export to run smooth,” Wisnu said.
Wisnu also appreciates the terminal (IPC TPK) on handling this Tianshan call.
MV MSC Tianshan, a 334-meter LOA containership, was originated from Umm Qasr Port, Iraq and destined to Qingdao, China.
Agent by PT Perusahaan Pelabuhan Nusantara Panurjwan, MSC Tianshan would unload as many as 1,702 boxes (3,394 TEUs) in total and would load 103 boxes.
As reported earlier, MSC has simultaneously done and will continue to do repositioning of empty containers to Jakarta, the forty-feet (40ft) ones in particular, in a bid to help fluent flow of export from the country.
Since late September last year (2021) MSC has unloaded thousands of empty containers to Tanjung Priok – the country’s leading gateway in oceangoing trade, Dhany Novianto, MSC Country Director in Indonesia, told Indonesia Shipping Gazette.
“MSC commits to continuously help Indonesian export flow,” he said.
As reports have said, container shortage has taken place anywhere in the global trade, including in Indonesia (Jakarta). In addition to the increasing demand and disruption due to the pandemic Covid-19 outbreak, Indonesia’s condition is getting extra impact due to containerized trade model. Indonesia faces imbalance trade in the size of the container as most of the imports use 20ft containers, while exports use 40ft.
This is because imports to Indonesia (Jakarta) are mostly heavy goods such as raw materials while exports are light cargoes such as footwear, electronics, apparel, furniture and others that will be more efficient to use 40HC and d45 containers. Indonesia (Jakarta) lacks of 40HC and d45 containers, the ones needed for export.