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Indonesian state-owned train company, PT Industri Kereta Api or PT INKA along with the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment developed the reefer container to maintain the freshness and quality of fish. An endurance test for the reefer container was held at Tamperan Seaport in East Java last Thursday (22/9).

President Director of PT INKA, Budi Noviantoro in a statement has said recently that there was a difficulty in shipping marine commodities. It needed a reefer container with an advanced technology system. He hopes the reefer container prototype is working.

The marine commodity was moved into the container with a hybrid system in the prototype. The power supply uses a solar panel, battery, and generator. The body uses polyurethane foam with a stainless steel frame that can keep the temperature up to 22 Celcius.

There are five reefer container prototypes to be developed by PT INKA and Brawijaya University. They are mini reefer containers with various capacities according to international shipping needs. The standardization and certification test for the product is targeted to finish by December 2021. So, it can be mass-produced in January 2022.

The Ministry's Deputy Assistant of Maritime Resources Downstreaming, Amalyos Chan affirmed the reefer container prototype will have Indonesian National Standard and local content rate is processed. This aims to support national products to compete with foreign products. Therefore, Indonesia will not depend on foreign products anymore.