With the additional ports registered, the total number of national ports that have adopted digitization from 2016 to June 2023 reaches 149, exceeding 50 percent of the total target of 260 set for the end of 2023.
"Adoption of Inaportnet in ports serve as means of collective monitoring by relevant stakeholders, so that the port services become more accountable and transparent," Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi noted in a statement received here on Tuesday.
Sumadi and Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto attended the launch of First Phase of Go Live of Inaportnet adoption of 40 ports, hosted at the Transportation Ministry's office in Jakarta.
On the occasion, an integrity pact was also inked as an initiative of commitment to adopt the system.
Sumadi noted that ports are the hubs of logistical distribution that can boost the economy and competitiveness of the state. Inaportnet, which brings about digitization to port services, is expected to improve them, thereby promoting national logistic cost efficiency, he elaborated.
The minister expected all stakeholders to be able to strengthen coordination and let go of their ego so as to offer superlative port services.
Moreover, Minister Hartarto commended the Transportation Ministry's commitment and efforts and deemed the initiative as being a real form of inter-agency collaboration to provide best port services for people.
"With first phase of the 2023 implementation, it is expected that Inaportnet can pursue the vision, as the main driving force of public services efficiency, through an integrated electronic system in import and export aspects. We hope that national competitiveness can consistently improve," he affirmed.
Some initiatives undertaken by the Transportation Ministry to implement Inaportnet at 40 ports include hosting the training of trainers in March; testing infrastructures and systems with their stakeholders; as well as informing customers of the 40 ports from May to mid-June of 2023, he elaborated.
The second phase of Inaportnet Go Live will be hosted in September 2023, while the third will be in November 2023, he pointed out.
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