Ministry Of Transportation: Jakarta Is Included In The Ranks Of The Leading Maritime City In The World

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JAKARTA - Director General of Sea Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) Antoni Arif Priadi said Jakarta is included in the list of 50 leading maritime cities in the world based on a journal entitled Leading Maritime Cities 2024.

"Jakarta is included in the list of 50 leading maritime cities around the world based on a journal entitled Leading Maritime Cities 2024 released by the DNV GL Risk Management Company and the Menon Economic Consultant with data sources originating from Clarkson Research," he said in a statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, May 15.

He revealed that in the journal, Jakarta was ranked first as the city with the most shipping company headquarters in the world. Jakarta leads the indicator with 261 registered shipping companies.

He said most of the ships were small ships, which operated regionally to serve Indonesia's needs as an archipelagic country.

In addition, Jakarta is included in the top 15 on two other indicators, namely the size of the fleet (CGT) owned by ship owners registered in the city, as well as the size of the fleet (CGT) controlled by ship owners registered in the city.

These indicators, he said, brought Jakarta into the top 15 cities that are the main shipping centers in the world, along with Singapore, Athens, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, London, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Oslo, Seoul, Dubai, Beijing, and Maseille.

The main shipping center is one of the five pillars to determine the ranking of 50 leading maritime cities in the world.

"The large number of shipping companies located in a city can certainly provide a different perspective on the shipping community compared to the value of ships and the company's income," he said.

Antoni added that the journal Leading Maritime Cities 2024 has entered its 6th edition since it was issued regularly every two years in 2012.

The rankings in journals are based on a combination of objective data obtained through leading international sources and subjective assessments from experts to evaluate and make benchmarks for 50 leading maritime cities.

"This research is carried out using a bottom-up approach, taking 15,000 cities that have maritime activities, to then filter them into 50 cities based on maritime objective indicators for four of the five pillars, namely shipping centers, finance and maritime law, maritime technology, and ports and logistics," he said.

The subjective assessment was carried out by 190 maritime experts worldwide against the 5th pillar, namely attraction and competitiveness, to be combined with objective data and used to rank 50 leading maritime cities in the world.

Antoni thinks that the entry of Jakarta as one of the 50 leading maritime cities in the world must be used as encouragement and motivation for Indonesia to continue to improve and develop in the maritime industry.

Moreover, research reveals that international trade centers are gradually moving towards the East or Asia, with more and more ship owners emerging from this region. This shift is certainly expected to lift maritime cities in Asia in global maritime trade.

Therefore, he said, it is important to continue to increase capacity both in terms of technological innovation, human resources, and policies in realizing shipping that are safe, safe, and environmentally friendly.

"So that it can then increase the attractiveness and competitiveness that can bring not only Jakarta, but other cities in Indonesia become the leading maritime cities in the world," said Antoni.