Dealing With Container Scarcity

In order to reduce the high dependence on foreign shipping companies, Indonesia needs to increase the number of container ships on international routes in line with the increase in exports.

There has been a scarcity of shipping containers for the last few months and this has seriously disrupted export-import activities, it is not expected to be resolved in the near future and could continue until the end of 2022. Why is there an increase in the cost of sea freight transportation at the global level?

Look, for example, at the review of the Global Container Freight Index. It is stated that container transportation costs rose 430 percent on an annual basis in August 2021.