Waiting at Belawan

Thousands of containers filled with humanitarian aid pile up at Belawan Port. Some have not been doled out to recipients, others are hampered by import regulations.

May 10, 2005

The thousands of giant iron boxes were neatly arranged at the Gabion Containers Port, Belawan, Medan on last Friday. More than ten big trucks, each with a 12-ton capacity were busy carrying containers from the ship to the port yard. On the 10 hectares area, thousands of various colored containers from several countries were heaped up. In total, the Gabion yard could house 2,000 containers of 20 tons in capacity. A barbed wire fence separated the

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