Ministry of Transportation: Jakarta is on the List of 50 Leading Maritime Cities in the World
Ministry of Transportation: Jakarta is on the List of 50 Leading Maritime Cities in the World
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 throughout the world based on a journal entitled Leading “Maritime Cities 2024 was released by DNV GL Risk Management Company and Menon Economis Consultants with the data source coming from Clarkson Research,” he said in a statement in Jakarta, Tuesday, May 14 2024.
In the journal, Jakarta is 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 that most of these ships were small vessels, which operated regionally to serve the needs of Indonesia as an archipelagic country. Apart from that, Jakarta is in the top 15 on two other indicators, namely the fleet size (CGT) owned by ship owners registered in the city, and the fleet size (CGT) controlled by ship owners registered in the city.
These indicators, he said, brought Jakarta into the top 15 cities which are major 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 for ranking the world’s 50 leading maritime cities. “The large number of shipping companies located in a city can certainly provide a different perspective on the shipping community compared to ship values and company revenues,” he said.
Antoni added that the journal Leading Maritime Cities 2024 has entered its 6th edition since it was published regularly every two years in 2012. The ranking in the journal is based on a combination of objective data obtained through leading international sources and subjective assessments from experts to evaluating and benchmarking 50 leading maritime cities.
“This research was carried out using a bottom-up approach, taking 15,000 cities that have maritime activities, and then filtering them into 50 cities based on objective maritime indicators for four of the five pillars, namely shipping centers, maritime finance and law, maritime technology, and ports and logistics,” he said.
Subjective assessments were carried out by 190 maritime experts around the world on the 5th pillar, namely attractiveness and competitiveness, which were then combined with objective data and used to determine the ranking of the 50 leading maritime cities in the world.
Antoni believes that Jakarta’s inclusion as one of the 50 leading maritime cities in the world should be an encouragement and motivation for Indonesia to continue to improve and develop in the maritime industry.
Moreover, research reveals that the center of international trade is gradually moving towards the East or Asia, with more and more ship owners emerging from this region. This shift is certainly expected to elevate maritime cities in Asia in global maritime trade.
Therefore, he said, it is important to continue to increase capacity in terms of technological innovation, human resources, and policies in realizing safe, secure and environmentally friendly shipping. “So that it can then increase its attractiveness and competitiveness which can bring not only Jakarta, but other cities in Indonesia to become leading maritime cities in the world,” said Antoni.
