Internship Presentationby:

Silvan van Heel silvanvanheel@hotmail.com

Makassar International Hub Port

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Occasion: The fast growth of International trade development provides an opportunity of shifting goods distribution pattern that use containers.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Pelindo IV’s objective What are import and export volumes in the hinterland. How can Pelindo IV use this knowledge in order to increase the performance of Container Terminal Makassar? And therefore see if it is possible to get the status of having an international hub port in Makassar and attract foreign container vessels.

The goal is to come up with a proposal stating recommendations to improve the position of the Port of Makassar as an international port. This includes a study in the market identifying export and import volumes and suggestions how to direct them to the port of Makassar. Secondly if the container terminal complies with all the required rules, regulations facilities that need an international terminal should have.

Market

Compliance

The hinterland is the supplier of international cargo and therefore it’s potential is evaluated

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Market

Sulawesi

Traffic in 2010:750.000TEU

Traffic in 2014:1.000.000 TEU

East- Kalimantan

Traffic in 2010:350.000 TEU

Traffic in 2014:480.000 TEU

Maluku and Papua

Traffic in 2010:200.000 TEU

Traffic in 2014:300.000 TEU

These shipcalls will play a role of significance in directing extra international cargo towards Makassar Container Terminal.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Market

The routing will stay relatively the same on both import and export, the main difference will be the point costume-clearance .

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Market

A significant number of cargo within Pelindo IV’s corridor is recorded as domestic. In fact part of this cargo movement is international

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

International volume

Recorded as International

Recorded as Domestic

Market

Cargo that is collected will be domestically shipped over the existing connections in the hinterland to Container Terminal Makassar a great extend will be combined and transshipped directly to Singapore.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Market

If Makassar would function as this international hub port the ports in every x days a shipcall is received by the port and a direct connection between the ports is established. It is seen that the gaps are relatively big which can result in a long waiting time before it gets shipped.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Market

A hub port not only provides loading/discharging of cargo and vessel berthing services, but also provides value-added services including transshipment, consolidation, distribution center, vessel repair, bunker, etc.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Compliance

Vessel maintenance servicesTrusted Custom-clearance

Berth lengthContainer yardTerminal handling facilitiesSecurity and safety

The future for Pelindo IV hinterland and the container terminal Makassar shows a good trend. There are multiple strength and opportunities that help to improve the position of the port.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Strength WeaknessOppor-tunities

Makassar has the largest volume of international cargo in the hinterland nearly reaching the under threshold to get the interest of shipping agencies.

Pelindo IV lacks reliable information and statistics about container volume from the hinterland. Information is stored in various methods that makes it hard to compare or not digitally administrated.

Threats Limited space in the container yard. These will be resolved after the planned expansion “The Makassar New Port”. The realization of this project has been multiple times postponed. It is now projected to be operational in 2017.

The custom-clearance in Makassar is not believed to perform as good as in Jakarta and Surabaya. This could lead to extra delays.

SWOT

Transshipment in container terminal Makassar has a cost advantage over the ports Tanjung Perak and Tangjung Priok while they have about the same performance for loading and discharging vessels.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Retrieving data from the hinterland is extremely difficult, even to make an estimation is hard. The data for international cargo is too interwoven with the domestic cargo.

Facilities in container terminal Makassar such as the water debt, berthing facilities and the amount of cranes are fully satisfactory to cope with calls of international vessels.

Conclusions

Makassar is the only port within the hinterland that has a view on their international volume, if Pelindo IV wants to create an international hub in their hinterland this information should be available in all the ports.

Silvan van HeelPT. Pelindo IV, Makassar

Pelindo IV should invest in the standardization of data collection over their managed ports. If data is kept in a consistent manner, it will reduce miss interpretations and errors when data is shared among the different port branches.

The custom-clearance is believed to be inadequate, a sustainable relationship between Pelindo IV, the shipping agencies and the customs should be established so all the parties could benefit from the improvement.

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