Indonesia’s Go-Jek ride-hailing app files for reconsidaration
men or trainees and six instructors. It has a service speed of 13.8 knots.
The new vessel was officially named “M/V Kapitan Gregorio Oca” by Dr. Oca, son of Capt. Oca, after the traditional and celebratory rice caketossing during a dinner on Aug. 8, 2018 at Nippodaira Hotel in Shinzuoka. A total of 20 cadets of Japan Sea Cadets Foundation Shimizu attended, who cheered in excitement at the opportunity of seeing up close such a large vessel. The following day, Aug. 9. 2018, the M/V Kapitan Gregorio Oca was launched by International Mariners[ Management of Japan (IMMAJ) and HIMO at the shipyard. With Dr. Oca at the ceremonies who delivered messages were IMMAJ chairman Capt. Koichi Akamine, AJSU president
Mr. Yasumi Morita, MAAP President Santos, Phil-Japan Manning Consultative Council (PJMCC) vice pres. Capt. Teodoro B. Quijano, MIHO Shipyard
Co., Ltd. President Mr. Kengo Suzuki, Phil.-Japan Manning Consultative Council (PJMCC) vice pres. Capt. Teodoro B. Quijano, TSUNEISHI Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. vice pres. Mr. Yasunori Kohatake, together with Dr. Oca’s wife Yvette I. Oca, siblings Ma. Socorro and Pedro Miguel Oca, among others
AMOSUP legal affairs chief lawyer Emmanuel Partido and maritime journalist-analyst and legal researcher Eulogio Malicse described the birth of M/V Kapitan Gregorio Oca as “phenomenal and historic,” lauding the valuable and consistent efforts of Dr. Oca and Admiral Santos in working with the leadership of IMMAJ, AJSU, MIHO, PJMCC and TSUNEISHI for the construction of the new training ship.
Indonesia’s Go-Jek is in talks with Philippine authorities to get its ride-hailing service application reconsidered, after it was rejected this month by regulators, and hopes to be in the market soon, co-founder Kevin Aluwi said yesterday. The startup, whose backers include Alphabet, Inc.’s Google, suffered a setback to its regional expansion plans when its application to start ride-hailing services was rejected by Philippine authorities on the grounds that its domestic unit did not meet local ownership criteria.
“We are in conversation with all government agencies and are optimistic we will be in the market soon,” said Aluwi, who also serves as Go-Jek chief information officer.
Having evolved from a ride-hailing service founded in 2011 to providing a one-stop app through which users can make online payments and order food and services such as massages, Go-Jek is now nursing ambitions for a larger share of the Southeast Asian market, currently dominated by Singapore-based Grab.
Aluwi said Go-Jek had seen transactions worth $12.5 billion “over its whole platform” in 2018, with “consistent and explosive growth.”
The startup announced last week that it had acquired a majority stake in Philippine fintech company Coins. ph, which operates a mobile wallet with five million users.
News website Techcrunch cited two unnamed sources as saying the investment was worth $72 million. (Reuters)