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JAKARTA - In Indonesia, it can cost twice as much to transport a refrigerated container of oranges from Jakarta to Jayapura, in Papua, a distance of more than 4,300km, than it does to import it from Shanghai, which is similar in distance. Shipping can be tricky in the world's largest archipelago. The country is thought to have a fraction of the refrigerated trucks, cold storage and containers than its size and population should warrant, according to industry watchers. Bottlenecks at ports and traffic add up to the region's highest shipping costs. So logistics managers scrambled for spare cap...

Shipping can be tricky in the world's largest archipelago. The country is thought to have a fraction of the refrigerated trucks, cold storage and containers that its size and population should warrant, according to industry watchers. Bottlenecks at ports and traffic add up to the region's highest shipping costs. So logistics managers scrambled for spare capacity when the government of President Joko Widodo approached industry representatives to help move hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine across three time zones in the country. For now, there is space, thanks in part to idle trucks and ...