The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) through the Directorate General of Sea Transportation empowers all potentials of sea transportation and port infrastructure to be able to improve the community's economy.
"We will continue to provide the best services to strengthen the maritime sector in order to create a better community economy, especially in Eastern Indonesia, one of which is the sea toll program," said Director General of Sea Transportation Arif Toha in Jakarta, Thursday.
Arif said the implementation of the sea toll road had contributed and benefited, especially in reducing price disparities, as well as increasing economic equality between the western and eastern regions of Indonesia.
He explained that the sea highway program has 33 routes which are served by operating 32 ships by stopping at 130 ports to distribute goods, maintain the availability of goods, and participate in exploring the superior potential of the region that can be distributed outside the area.
"Most departing cargoes carried by sea toll ships include cement, rice, mineral water, and soft drinks. While the most returning cargo commodities include wood, copra, seaweed, coconut tree trunks, and charcoal," he said.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Transportation has also made innovations and breakthroughs in the context of National Food Security, one of which is by creating new trade patterns from new food estate areas such as Merauke to Papua, West Papua and East Nusa Tenggara.
In its implementation, currently the sea toll program has also been supported by applications that make it easier for business actors to process orders to delivery of goods.
"We are also cooperating through the SITOLAUT application with BRISTORE with an end-to-end user system to provide convenience and facilitate distribution and payment systems to the public," he said.
Furthermore, Arif said that the sea highway program was successfully carried out in Maluku and North Maluku Provinces, which are currently traversed by 10 sea toll routes with 28 ports.
The number of departing and returning cargoes is quite large in 2022, where up to the end of August it has reached 9,009 TEUs, with details of 6,585 TEUs of cargo departing to Maluku and North Maluku Provinces, and 2,424 TEUs of returning cargoes from Maluku and North Maluku Provinces. . He said the number would continue to grow until the end of 2022.
When compared with 2021, where the cargo using the sea toll in the two provinces is only 7,876 TEUs, with details of 5,146 TEUs for departing loads and 2,730 TEUs for returning loads.
He emphasized that the success of the sea highway program cannot be separated from the subsidies provided by the government so that the tariffs for transporting goods by sea toll vessels are cheaper than the rates for commercial ships.
Currently, there has been an increasingly smaller price disparity between the prices of Basic and Important Goods (Bapokting) in the areas of origin or the Hubs (Jakarta, Surabaya and Makassar) compared to areas that are hinterlands from the ports visited by ships. sea toll.
Some examples of price disparities in several areas in Maluku and North Maluku, according to data from the Ministry of Trade, include the price of cooking oil in Surabaya at IDR 17,600 per liter, the price in the Tidore Islands at IDR 20,000; the price of cement in Surabaya is IDR 54,800 per sack, the price in Morowali is IDR 60,000; and the price of wheat flour in Surabaya is Rp. 9,700 per kg, the price in South Buru is Rp. 10,000 per kg.
"These examples show a relatively small price disparity. This is one indicator of the success of the sea highway," he concluded.
SOURCE: https://www.antaranews.com/berita/3132997/kemenhub-berdayakan-tol-laut-to-ingkatkan-perekonomian-society
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