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EuroCham was invited by the Ministry of Transportation to a Multi-stakeholders Discussion on 24 September 2021 titled, “Financial Design of the Intermodal Freight Transport”, jointly organized by GIZ under the TRANSfer III programme. This multi-stakeholder discussion invited relevant stakeholders as well as policy makers from the Government to jointly discuss a Financial Design Study that is expected to assist the integration of freight transport on roads and rails as an effort to improve the competitiveness of Indonesia's transportation and logistics. Thereby creating synergies to support Indonesia's economic growth.

This Financial Design aims to set a high-level financing concept that estimates the costs and revenues of various measures or interventions that had been identified under the Technical Assessment and Impact Assessment conducted in 2020 as well as to evaluate the financial and economic feasibility, as well as outlining feasible financing mechanism options for the implementation of activities. This study is expected to provide an illustration regarding the several interventions that can be carried out in order to increase the market share of intermodal freight transport, especially in an effort to increase the market share of rail transport.

On Wednesday, 23 September 2021, the members of the Import-Export Procedures Working Group met to discuss the latest status of topics covered in the EuroCham Import-Export Procedures Position Papers 2021. This meeting was also intended for member companies to exchange the latest updates and challenges pertaining to import and export policies. The Meeting was co-chaired by the Head of Working Group, Rachmat Hidayat (Government Relations Director – Danone), and Prita Hapsari (Customs Head for Zone AOA (Asia Oceania Africa) of Nestlé). The participants actively engaged in a lively and constructive discussion during the Meeting, which concluded with some initiatives to continue the advocacy efforts with relevant stakeholders as well as the decision to monitor few topics impacting import-export policies.