Concentration of Container Throughput in the Hub Ports of Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/apbec-18.2019.64How to use a DOI?

Keywords

spatial concentration, Gini index, cargo transportation, sea-highways

Abstract

The concept of sea-highway or tol laut has received great attention from the government as reflected in the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2015–2019. In addition to 25 strategic ports all over the country, five hub ports (Belawan, Tanjung Priok, Tanjung Perak, Makasar, and Bitung) regularly receive large freight vessels, from the west to the east and vice versa. Unloaded cargo at the hub ports is then delivered to feeder ports throughout the country. Container throughput is heavily concentrated in the ports of Java such as the Port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta and the Port of Tanjung Perak in Surabaya. Although the implementation of sea- highways has not yet been effectively completed, changes in the concentration of port throughput need to be observed; for example, whether there has been a dynamic change in the role of the ports. By using the Gini index, this paper aims to explore the changes in the concentration of domestic loading and unloading of cargo in strategic ports all over the country between2005 and 2015, and the application of the spatial Gini model to analyze the concentration of container throughput in the hub ports.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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