{"id":3180,"date":"2010-01-19T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2010\/01\/19\/indonesian-terminals-to-open-around-the-clock\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:29:07","slug":"indonesian-terminals-to-open-around-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2010\/01\/19\/indonesian-terminals-to-open-around-the-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian terminals to open around the clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the extended opening has been established in these key ports, the remaining nine ports will also be made ready. The transition is required to enable a smoother flow of goods through Indonesian ports, say the authorities, which it is hoped will result in a reduction of vessel queuing times.<\/p>\n<p>The new initiative may be a reaction to Tanjung Priok&#8217;s nearing capacity. And it is complicated by the fact that rail and road connections are somewhat troubled: for example the rail link from Bandung, Java&#8217;s third-largest city, stops one kilometre short of the main port and road connections are poor, slowing containers down considerably.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia, the third-fastest expanding economy in the Group of 20 last year, has well-known infrastructure problems. Logistics costs put many Indonesian products way beyond the price of the equivalent Chinese items &#8211; and China is busily growing roads through its hinterland to open up its south-central and eastern areas.<\/p>\n<p>However, Indonesia has plans afoot to change the law &#8211; draft legislation will help acquire the necessary land rights, although farmers are saying that compensation prices are still not high enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesias 13 international ports are moving towards 24 hours-a-day operations, with Tanjung Priok, Makassar, Belawan and Tanjung Perak ports the forerunners for the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}