The following is excerpted from the 7 June 2013 edition of The Journal of Commerce.
A strike earlier this week at the leading Indonesia gateway port of Tanjung Priok is continuing to cause truck bottlenecks, according to forwarders.
While discharging and loading activities have continued as normal this week, the strike action on Monday and into Tuesday has impacted trucking operations to and from the port, which is located near the Indonesia capital Jakarta and handles around half of the country’s containers.
This article is available in its entirety at:
http://www.joc.com/port-news/asian-ports/port-tanjung-priok/strike-hampers-shipments-indonesia_20130607.html