Bina Putra AM Nainggolan Primary Author Deni Achmad Soeboer Primary Author Sri Rahardjo Additional Author

Port of Belawan is the main gateway in west Indonesia region to main international port to export the local commodity which derived from North Sumatera and remote area. Since the cabotage implemented in 2005, the Indonesian flagship has not ever dominated Indonesia’s export yet, but foreign flag did it, not only the shipping derived from Port of Belawan but international flagship brought even whole of Indonesia’s trading. Thus, this study is aimed to look the real profile of the global flagship which brought Indonesia’s export from the port of Belawan dan the progress for the last three years. The results showed during the previous three years from 2013 to 2015, the share of foreign ships still dominate the freight of cargo traffic abroad especially those transported by container ship. In 2013, 94% of export goods in containers was carried by foreign vessels, in the year 2014 decreased to 88% and went up 93% in the year 2015. The high share of the total cargo that brought by foreignflagged vessels is an opportunity that must be taken seriously by the government with various kinds of challenges including the national shipping capacity never increased significantly.