SEA TOL: Straight Lanes to Cut Prices
Cargo volumes are as yet unbalanced between Java and eastern Indonesia. A number of freight routes still involve private shipping lanes.
November 6, 2017
THE plan for Meratus Ultima 1 to be anchored at the wharf of Jamrud Selatan, Tanjung Perak Port, on Tuesday last week had to be put off. A meeting between Pelni as a vessel operator and Pelindo III as a port management company decided that Meratus Ultima 1 could only berth one day later because the quay was packed. Meratus Ultima 1 had to be moored for another night in the Madura Strait.
Sailing from Biak, Papua, the sea toll ship should in fact
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