[140621.EN.SEA] Asian Ports Deny Entry to Covid Ship With Dead Captain Aboard

 

NO port authority in Asia will allow Evergreen's 5,090-TEU Ital Libera to land with the body of its captain who died on board of Covid-19, reports Singapore's Splash247.

Nearly two months have passed since the death of Italian captain, Angelo Capurro, and his family are still unable to arrange a funeral.

Capt Capurro, 61, died on April 13 in Indonesian waters having contracted Covid-19. Other crewmen from the 2009-built ship also came down with the virus while en route from Durban to Singapore.

In the intervening 10 weeks since Capurro passed away, a host of Asian ports have denied the ship access.

A force majeure has been declared and the Italian-flagged ship has been diverted to call Italy first in order to bury the captain after many Asian ports denied the ship entry. Its home port if Trieste.

The desperate situation onboard even saw Capurro's family launch a fundraiser on GoFundMe earlier to try and get his return to Italian soil.

"We will fight so that this tragedy that has struck us is not archived, ending up in the anonymity of the numbers of forgotten statistics," said Captain Capurro's daughter, Maria Eleonora.

Hapag-Lloyd, an Evergreen partner, said the Ital Libera is eventually expected to return to the rotation in the Far East service, however arrival and cargo delivery dates are still to be determined.

Source : HKSG / Photo : ShipSpotting.

[140621.ID.BIZ] KALOG+ Genjot Promosi Tumbuhkan Pelanggan Baru

 

Bisnis.com, JAKARTA - KAI Logistik, anak usaha PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero), mengaku tengah fokus pada sosialisasi dan promosi layanan KALOG+, layanan premium untuk ritel/kurir yang dilayani melalui KAI Logistik Express.

Plt. Direktur Utama KAI Logistik TLN Ahmad Malik Syah mengatakan hingga saat ini belum ada peningkatan yang signifikan dengan adanya layanan tersebut. "Layanan KALOG+ merupakan layanan yang baru ditawarkan sehingga saat ini fokus kami masih pada sosialisasi dan promosi layanan tersebut kepada pelanggan," katanya kepada Bisnis.com, Senin (14/6/2021).

Kenapa? Kendati belum ada peningkatan, dia menyebut saat ini minat pelanggan terkait KALOG+ mulai terlihat mengingat banyaknya pertanyaan mengenai layanan tersebut. "Sejalan dengan promosi dan sosialisasi produk, kami juga melakukan peningkatan dengan melakukan perluasan jangkauan layanan yang secara berkelanjutan akan kami lakukan untuk memberikan kemudahan dan kenyamanan pelanggan khususnya dalam menggunakan layanan KALOG+," jelasnya.

Sebelumnya Malik menuturkan bahwa KALOG+ merupakan bentuk komitmen KAI Logistik dalam menghadirkan layanan yang lebih baik, dalam hal ini menawarkan kemudahan dan kenyamanan bagi pelanggan melalui layanan premium dengan pengantaran paket hingga ke alamat tujuan.

Peningkatan layanan melalui KALOG+ berlaku untuk kiriman dengan berat hingga 10 kg dimana tarif sudah termasuk dengan pengantaran melalui ojek daring hingga ke alamat penerima dalam kota dengan radius hingga 10 Km.

KALOG+ lanjutnya, juga memberlakukan disparitas harga untuk pengiriman paket sesuai dengan berat paket yang dikirimkan sesuai dengan kebutuhan pelanggan dengan tarif yang kompetitif.

"Kami berharap dengan hadirnya KALOG+ akan menjadi kemudahan dan nilai lebih karena pelanggan tidak lagi dibebankan tarif flat untuk berat 1-10 kg melainkan menyesuaikan berat aktual dengan minimal berat 3 kg, serta tidak harus mengambil paket di stasiun tujuan namun akan diantarkan hingga ke alamat tujuan dengan jadwal pengantaran menyesuaikan keinginan pelanggan.

Kebutuhan pengiriman barang dapat terpenuhi dengan semakin banyaknya pilihan jenis layanan yang tersedia," ujarnya.

Sumber : Bisnis, 14.06.2021.

[130621.EN.SEA] Old Normal Elusive: No Easy Recovery Seen For Container Shipping

 

NO easy recovery is expected for container shipping as transpacific spot rates have risen between US$8,000 and $11,000 per FEU from Asia to the US west coast and between $11,000 and $20,000 per FEU to the US east coast, reports IHS Media.

Various spot indices are exceeding $10,000 per FEU on the Asia-Europe trade, while evidence of rates approaching $14,000 to $15,000 per FEU from Asia to North Europe is emerging.

The latest Sea-Intelligence Maritime Consulting shows 78 per cent of vessels arriving at US west coast ports are late, with an average delay of 10 days.

Besides the Covid crisis, there are many problems associated with the issue, including port congestion, vessel shortages, equipment shortages, chassis shortages, rail shortages, and truck shortages.

Now, it takes much longer to move cargo and the equipment which in turn soaks up large amounts of capacity.

As a result, the extreme capacity shortages mean there is no buffer capacity to handle the more typical disruptions seen in freight transportation.

Meanwhile, with Malaysia about to go into lockdown, the Port of Yantian partially closed because of the Covid crisis, and Hamburg now badly afflicted by congestion.

Source : HKSG.

[130621.ID.BIZ] JNE Angkat Bicara Soal Persaingan Jasa Kurir saat Pandemi

 

Bisnis.com, JAKARTA - PT Jalur Nugraha Ekakurir (JNE) optimistis tetap jadi andalan jasa pengiriman dari barang-barang marketplace kendati saat ini banyak bermunculan perusahaan jasa kurir baru di tengah pandemi Covid-19.

VP of Marketing JNE Eri Palgunadi mengatakan kemunculan perusahaan-perusahaan jasa logistik tersebut merupakan tantangan untuk terus berinovasi sehingga kebutuhan pelanggan dapat terus terpenuhi.

"Munculnya perusahaan jasa kurir baru, bagi JNE merupakan tantangan untuk terus melakukan inovasi sehingga dapat terus memenuhi kebutuhan pelanggan," katanya kepada Bisnis.com, Minggu (13/6/2021).

Dia bahkan yakin JNE bisa bersaing kendati saat ini tidak sedikit juga marketplace yang membuka jasa pengiriman barang milik sendiri. Hal itu justru bisa dimanfaatkan JNE untuk melakukan kolaborasi.

"Dengan kekuatan network JNE yang tersebar di hampir seluruh wilayah di Indonesia, kami optimis tetap dapat menjadi solusi bagi marketplace dimana JNE sebagai partner last mile delivery," sebutnya.

Sebelumnya, Eri juga mengklaim bahwa JNE terus berinovasi dan bertranformasi terutama di era digital saat ini. Sejumlah evaluasi pun dicatatkan pasca melewati peak season Ramadan dan Lebaran 2021.

Inovasi tersebut, lanjutnya, diwujudkan antara lain dalam bentuk produk layanan dan strategi distribusi yang dijalankan. Tentunya tujuan dari inovasi tersebut adalah untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pelanggan yang meningkat pula dalam hal jenis, ukuran maupun jumlah paket, serta kebutuhan ketika proses pengiriman dijalankan.

"JNE menyediakan berbagai produk layanan maupun fasilitas untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pelanggan, mulai dari kebutuhan sebelum proses pengiriman paket dilakukan, saat proses serah-terima paket dari pelanggan kepada JNE di titik layanan, ketika proses pengiriman paket berjalan, sampai dengan ketika paket telah diterima oleh penerima," imbuhnya.

Sumber : Bisnis, 13.06.2021.

[120621.EN.SEA] Prosecutors Demand Deleted Emails in X-Press Pearl Inferno Case

 

SRI LANKAN prosecutors accuse X-Press Feeders and its parent, Sea Consortium, of a cover-up as court proceedings get underway in Colombo looking into the blaze and sinking of the 2,700-TEU X-Press Pearl, often described as one of the worst ecological disasters to hit the island nation.

The catalyst for the inferno on the X-Press Pearl is said to be a leakage of nitric acid, which was correctly declared but apparently incorrectly packaged, reported Singapore's Splash 247.

State prosecutors allege that Sea Consortium Lanka, the local agent for the ship, deleted key emails. The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl reported an onboard acid leak to its representative Sea Consortium Lanka nine days before the ship entered Sri Lankan waters, but the agent failed to alert Colombo authorities, prosecutors say.

Emails between Sea Consortium and the Russian master of the X-Press Pearl, Tyutkalo Vitaly, had been wiped, they said. The court has demanded X-Press Feeders locate the emails from mail servers overseas.

Ports in Qatar and India had earlier refused to offload a leaking acid container which had been loaded onboard the three-month-old ship in Jebel Ali, Dubai.

Investigators are also going through the ship's voyage data recorder (VDR), which divers managed to retrieve over the weekend.

The X-Press Pearl's fate is the latest in a disappointing recent and persistent catalogue of containership fires of varying degrees of severity, which occur on an almost weekly basis.

The vast majority of these are initiated by a cargo of a hazardous nature. One estimate puts the number of mis- or undeclared dangerous cargoes in excess of 150,000 containers a year - each of which has disastrous potential.

There were around 25 tonnes packed on the 1,486 laden containers on the ship, as well as many tonnes of microplastics which have been washing on Sri Lanka's western shorelines over the past fortnight.

Source : HKSG / Photo : Splash 247.

[120621.ID.BIZ] Pemerintah Targetkan 30 Juta Pelaku UMKM Masuk Ekosistem Digital

 

KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Presiden Joko Widodo dalam rapat terbatas, Kamis (10/6), menginstruksikan percepatan digitalisasi usaha mikro, kecil, dan menengah (UMKM) mengingat potensi ekonomi digital Indonesia yang amat besar.

Menteri Koperasi dan UKM Teten Masduki mengatakan, berdasarkan data dari Indonesian E-Commerce Association (idEA) terdapat 13,7 juta pelaku UMKM Indonesia yang sudah tergabung ke dalam ekosistem digital hingga Mei 2021.

"Saat ini, kalau berdasarkan data dari Asosiasi E-commerce Indonesia (idEA) per Mei 2021 itu sudah mencapai 13,7 juta pelaku UMKM yang sudah onboarding di ekosistem digital atau sekitar 21 persen," kata Teten dalam rilis yang diterima Kontan.co.id, Jumat (11/6).

Pemerintah telah menargetkan agar pada tahun 2024 mendatang, jumlah pelaku UMKM yang tergabung ke dalam ekosistem digital dapat meningkat pesat hingga 30 juta pelaku. Strategi yang tepat tentunya sangat dibutuhkan untuk mewujudkan target tersebut.

"Harus ada strategi proaktif jemput bola untuk melakukan pendampingan, kurasi produk, SDM-nya, pembiayaan, sampai mereka bisa onboarding di e-commerce," kata Teten.

Selain itu, Teten mengungkap bahwa nantinya akan dibentuk program project management officer (PMO) lintas sektoral atau lintas kementerian yang nantinya akan mengonsolidasikan proses digitalisasi tersebut.

Sumber : Kontan, 11.06.2021.

[110621.EN.BIZ[ CP Tells STB It Will Oppose CN Bid For KCS And Enter Rival Bid

 

THE Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has issued a statement saying it intends to join 130 shippers, communities, labour organisations and other stakeholders in opposition to the Canadian National Railway's (CN) bid to take over the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS).

"The next 20 days, and the [Surface Transportation Board's (STB)] subsequent deliberations, will determine the course of competition for US railroading and North American commerce for the next 150 years," said CP.

"CP remains confident that the STB will ultimately reject CN's proposal to use a voting trust. Allowing CN to close into trust would not be in the public interest because its approval would pre-judge STB review, harm competition, risk CN shifting financial burdens to shippers, and pave the way for additional US rail consolidation," said the CP statement.

"CN's arguments in favour of a trust amount to the claim that CN and KCS should be able to decide what is in the public interest based on which railroad is offering more money to acquire KCS - that argument elevates private interests over the public interest," the statement said.

"The Department of Justice has raised serious competitive concerns about CN's proposed voting trust, contending that 'the board should not permit the proposed CN voting trust because CN's proposed acquisition of KCS appears to pose greater risks to competition than the risks posed by a CP-KCS merger'."

The DOJ further stated that "threats to competition would be present immediately after the CN voting trust is consummated." These threats cannot be overcome by the divestiture CN has proposed because that divestiture would be both too narrow and too late - coming only after the voting trust period would have ended, said CP.

Because CN's agreement with KCS may not be capable of consummation, CP is proceeding with preparing our full merger application seeking authority from the STB to acquire control of KCS.

Source : HKSG.