Port in a Storm
The paralysis at Merak Port is a reflection of chaotic management. Short- and medium-term solutions are needed to get it going again.
March 9, 2011
MASSIVE traffic jams happen again and again, but this time the congestion was excessive and truly regrettable: thousands of trucks stretched along more than 18 kilometers of the road to the Merak ferry port. So the question that needs to be answered by the ministries of Transportation and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) is: did port managers fail to anticipate the situation that led to such appalling congestion?
The second question: why was it on
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