Shipping Face Foreign Incursions

Banjarmasin, 22/3 (Antaranews, South Kalimantan) - Employers of nationwide shipping and stevedoring companies must be prepared to face more severe challenges especially against the entry of foreign businessmen.

Chairman of the Representative Board of Indonesian Stevedoring Employers Association (APBMI) Bambang K Rachwadi Thursday in Banjarmasin said foreign investors now entering Indonesia and ready to compete with employers of nationwide shipping and stevedoring companies, so that the labor of loading and unloading (TKBM) and Loading and Unloading Indonesian Employers Association (APBMI) should be changed.

Employers in the country, he said, must become masters in their own homes, by upholding professionalism and improve human resources, so they have a value of competence.

Chairman of the Parent Cooperative Manpower Loading and Unloading (TKBM) Ports, JF Gultom said APBMI and TKBM agreed together to overcome the existing problems in the field. Both are committed to partnership to address the problems and challenges of the business world to a future that is more severe.

Gultom said it will continue to improve the ability of workers at the port. However, he added, employers also must have the courage to put the stevedore labor or as a partner, because they gain success can not be separated from the part of labor.

He said he will continue to improve the quality of labor among other workers shall be able to read and write, so it is not easy to be fooled by others. They also need to have more skills, especially knowledge of unloading technology, which is now growing. He said this while socializing a Joint Decree of 2 Director General and 1 Deputy about the Making and Arrangement of Cooperative TKBM Port. It was conducted by South and Central Kalimantan Board of APBMI with relevant partners.

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Editor : Mahdani