Seaport Consultants - Port and Transportation Consulting

Indonesia

PT Hickling Indonesia for BAPPENAS (National Development Planning Agency), Jakarta, Indonesia. Technical assistance for private sector infrastructure development. PT Hickling Indonesia provided policy and legislative advice regarding identification, advertisement and procurement of private sector participation in Indonesian infrastructure projects. The work involves assistance with drafting of implementing legislation (signed by President Suharto in December 1997), development of a plan for an information center, review of regulatory issues, and various other tasks. One Seaport individual was seconded to Hickling to provide expertise in infrastructure economics.

PT Dwipantara Transconsult, Indonesia. Traffic forecast for major port as part of a feasibility study of offshore land development. Seaport compiled and reconciled international, regional, Indonesian and local port traffic statistics, gathered national and provincial economic data, and interviewed shipping lines, agents, industrial estate developers and manufacturing companies. Seaport developed an overall forecast model for the port and prepared forecasts by cargo handling mode with a particular focus on containers.

Monenco Agra Inc. for Asian Development Bank, Indonesia. Marine transport aspects of coal sector policy study. Seaport provided assistance to Monenco on the marine transport aspects of this coal policy study for the Indonesian ministry of energy and Asian Development Bank. The work involved building up costs of generic coal receiving terminals associated with Indonesian power plants and estimates of the costs of Indonesian and world coal shipping.

P&O Australia, Indonesia Port Corporation II, McMillan Britton & Kell Pty Ltd., et al, Indonesia. Bojonegara container port feasibility study. Container traffic through the Port of Tanjung Priok (adjacent to Jakarta) grew at some 20 to 25 percent a year for the last decade. The Government of Indonesia, Indonesia Port Corporation II (which operates Tanjung Priok) and private Indonesian investors decided to develop a new, private container port in the Bojonegara area west of Jakarta. These parties in turn engaged a consortium of Australian companies to investigate the feasibility of building the container port under a build-operate-transfer contract. The Australian consortium retained Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. and PT Dwipantara Transconsult (an Indonesian consultancy) to assist with the feasibility study. Seaports role included:

A container traffic forecast. The study involved gathering port traffic and national economic data, reviewing the port hinterland, a forecast of total and container traffic for western Java, and an evaluation of the Bojonegara terminal's competitiveness with Tanjung Priok.
Development of a ministerial position paper on the rationale for port development at Bojonegara.
A review of Indonesian and regional port tariffs, and development of a tariff schedule for the new port.
A review of world, regional and local container shipping to choose the design ship for the port.

The project forecast that container traffic will continue to grow at high rates, although at growth rates below those of the recent past. Notwithstanding that Tanjung Priok received about half of its container throughput as feeders from Singapore and much of the residual traffic was in second-generation vessels in the intra-Asian trades, the study concluded that the new port should be for post-Panamax ships. Traffic development in Indonesia had reached the point where major shipping lines may add western Java ports to the major Asia/Europe and Asia/west coast USA trades and feed traffic to them from other Indonesian ports.