Sabtu, 22 November 2008

JICT Tightens the Overbrengen

The operator of Jakarta International Container Terminal tightens the act of overbrengen or removing of imported containers from the container yard in this terminal.

“The tightening action is taken based on the calculation of the Yard Occupancy Ratio (YOR) and total ship calls everyday and served in JICT. Even if it is holiday and the YOR is high, but if the delivery is also high and the stevedoring activities tend to be lower, overbrengen will not be done,” Agus Barlianto, the Public Relation Manager of PT JICT told media recently in response to the complaints of some shippers over the limitation of the removal of container piling location (overbrengen) to the Temporary Container Yard (TPS) in Tanjung Priok since mid October 2008.

Barlianto also stated that according to the rules of the Customs Office, the act of removing containers could be taken at the time YOR reached 85% or more. However, the high YOR standard is not the only way of doing overbrengen, but also depends on ship calls condition and the smoothness of delivery.

“It’s not true if JICT was no longer doing overbrengen in post Iedl Fitri days in the early October ago,” he said.

The source of Ocean Week confirmed that there was tightening to the overbrengen activity from JICT to several TPS. But the policy actually should be responded wisely, why such things must be done after the iedl Fitri days. “Whether it was the impact of global crisis that resulted lower container throughput in JICT, or other thing, they must be responded wisely,” he said.

As a TPS provider, he fully realized the current difficult situation and condition. Nevertheless, he expected that everyone should remain optimistic that the business community would be able to survive from this condition.

He hoped that all parties not accusing, pressing or blaming one to another. “But, let’s find the solution to overcome the problems, which appears due to this global crisis,” the source said.

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