Logistics Cost in Indonesia: 5 km to Berth, an Honest Model
Logistics cost in Indonesia ran at 14.29% of GDP in 2022, and the government has now put a Presidential Regulation behind cutting it: Perpres 41 of 2026, with an intermediate target of 12.5% and 8% by 2045. Those are national numbers. A plant does not pay a national number. It pays a truck rate, a […]
Liquid Bulk Terminal Design: Tank Farms, Pipelines and Loading Arms (2026)
A liquid bulk terminal is a closed system with three parts: a berth where ships connect, a pipeline corridor, and a tank farm. Everything that makes one terminal better than another, from how fast a tanker turns around to whether a food-grade cargo arrives uncontaminated, is decided in the specification of those three parts, before […]
Indonesia Bulk Terminal Map: Where CPO, Coal and Chemicals Actually Move (2026)
Indonesia bulk terminal is rarely a single place. Palm oil leaves through a handful of Sumatran ports, coal through captive jetties and open-sea anchorages off Kalimantan, chemicals through independent tank farms on the Java side of the Sunda Strait, and grain and ore through one very deep port in Banten. This page maps them by […]
Bulk Terminal Operations: Dry and Liquid Cargo Handling Explained
A bulk terminal moves cargo that has no packaging: coal, cement, fertiliser and grain on the dry side, crude palm oil, chemicals and fuels on the liquid side. Because nothing is boxed, the terminal’s equipment is the packaging, and its design decides how fast a ship turns around, how much product is lost on the […]