Sri Mas Sari – Bisnis.com 20 March 2019 | 21:12 WIB
Illustration – The atmosphere of loading and unloading of container ships in the Kuala Tanjung Port Multipurpose Terminal, Batu Bara Regency, North Sumatra, Thursday (12/27). PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I released the first export cargo at the terminal with the ship Wan Hai 505, carrying 180 TEUs of export cargo to China. – Business / Abdullah Azzam
Bisnis.com, JAKARTA – Pelindo I is looking for a strategic partner to manage the Kuala Tanjung industrial area which will support Kuala Tanjung Harbor. The area of the industrial estate reaches up to 3,000 hectares.
Pelindo I Finance Director M. Nur Sodiq said that the strategic partner was expected to sustain some of the development funds through the formation of a joint venture with PT Prima Pembangunan Kawasan, a Pelindo I subsidiary that manages the Kuala Tanjung industrial area.
“We are having a beauty contest for strategic partners. We cannot mention who are the participants.” he told Bisnis on Wednesday (3/20/2019).
The search for strategic partners is in line with the process of land acquisition which this year is targeted at 400 hectares. Pelindo I has prepared IDR 2 trillion for land acquisition and basic infrastructure development, such as roads and electricity.
Industrial estates with an area of up to 3,000 hectares will be the origin of the Kuala Tanjung Port inland goods predicted by the government to become an international hub in the Malacca Strait.
Previously, in accordance with Presidential Regulation No. 81/2018, the assignment of the construction, development and management of the Kuala Tanjung industrial estate was carried out by Pelindo I by involving and with PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum or Inalum (Persero).
According to Sodiq, there is a possibility that PTPN III will also work together in developing the area. Meanwhile, the Port of Kuala Tanjung with a terminal capacity of 600,000 TEUs has been tested with several large vessels, both for domestic and export activities.
The ship that has docked includes KM Sinar Belawan which has a weight of around 12,000 GT with a length of 145.5 meters. The ship owned by the shipping company PT Samudera Indonesia was carrying 50 cargo boxes owned by PT Unilever Indonesia.
The Wan Hai 505 and Wan Hai 507 vessels with a length of 268 m each and a capacity of 4,500 TEUs have also been docked. Each ship transports goods belonging to PT Unilever Indonesia and PT Domas Agrointi Perdana (P&G) to China, India, Singapore and Malaysia.
The port has been equipped with a 500×60 m pier, trestle along 2.8 km and a width of 18.5 m, and equipped with 4 linex8 inch pipe rack, 3 units of ship to shore (STS) cranes, 8 units of automated rubber tyred gantry (ARTG) cranes , 21 units of truck terminals, and 2 units of mobile harbor cranes (MHC), as well as container and liquid bulk terminal operating system (TOS).
The port in Batubara Regency, around 130 km from Medan City, is operated by PT Prima Multi Terminal, a joint venture of Pelindo I, PT Pembangunan Perumahan, and PT Waskita Karya.
Sumber : bisnis.com