TA Asia Logistics ups capacity on Singapore-Indonesia run

TA ASIA Logistics has announced the addition of a 230-foot barge to its Singapore-Jambi (Indonesia) service from mid-December last year, to meet increasing demand from local cargo owners.

The service launched in August 2009, initially deployed a 180-foot crane barge to operate this trade route.

The port rotation is Singapore, Jambi, returning to Singapore. A round trip takes an average of eight days.

Also in the pipeline is the launch of intra-Asia feeder services from Indonesia that would connect ports in China to the Middle East, according to a TA Asia spokesman.

Its parent, the TA Asia Holdings Pte Ltd, a diversified ISO 9001 certified company based in Singapore and engaged in trade activities with Jambi, decided to venture into the shipping business after identifying a need to use its own vessels to transport cargo out of Indonesia, in an effort "to combat the ever increasing cost of freight originating from Jambi," it said.

Established in 1980, TA Asia is dedicated to serving the hardware retail business. However, when the container trade boomed, the company expanded its business scope to include the buying and selling of containers as one of its main core trading activities, a company statement said.

TA Asia also entered the container yard, NVOCC and freight forwarding businesses in the 1990s. It now operates container depots and warehousing facilities in Singapore, Indonesia and China.

In addition to having its own offices in Singapore, China, Indonesia and Malaysia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, TA Asia also offers from these locations specialised reefer container repair, ISO tanks washing and trading, NVOCC and freight forwarding services.

Source: www.schednet.com