Ship And Boat Products Trigger Significant Increase In Indonesian Exports To Senegal

Illustration - The atmosphere of container loading and unloading activities at Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta, Wednesday (15/6/2022). BETWEEN PHOTOS/Aprillio Akbar/rwa.

JAKARTA - The Secretary General of the Ministry of Trade, Suhanto, said that the export of several goods to Senegal, including ships and boats, had triggered a significant increase in exports to Senegal in May 2022.

"This significant increase was driven by exports of Indonesian goods to Senegal, including ships, boats and floating structures; plastics and plastic products; processed meat and fish; and paper, cardboard and goods thereof," said Suhanto. Saturday, June 25.

Suhanto said that Indonesia's exports to Senegal this year increased sharply. In May 2022, exports to Senegal amounted to US$ 118.81 million, or down 33.04 percent compared to April 2022 (MoM).

However, compared to May 2021, Indonesia's exports have increased by 880.35 percent.

Cumulatively, in January-May 2022, our exports to Senegal reached US$408.53 million, or an increase of 563.3 percent from the same period in 2021.

"The realization of this increase in exports to Senegal is one of the efforts to achieve our export market development target, namely product diversification and export markets to non-traditional countries in the African region," said Suhanto.

Besides Senegal, he continued, Indonesia is also trying to expand export markets to other countries in the African region through trade cooperation schemes and strengthening trade representatives in the African region which will be explored to open in Kenya. positive growth in line with the recovery in global economic performance, especially in major trading partner countries. It is targeted that export performance grows by 5.8 percent-7.9 percent and imports by 6.0 percent-8.6 percent in 2022.