Sabtu, 22 November 2008

Pelindo III Otimistic to Earn Profit to 512 Billion

PT Pelindo III is optimistic that it will be able to earn net profit of between Rp 500 billion to Rp 512 billion this year. It is based on the level of growth and the enhancement of services in the company and its
subsidiaries.

It was stated by the Managing Director of PT Pelindo III, Suprihat during the ceremony to transfer the position of the Vice President of PT Portek (the subsidiary of PT Pelindo III) from M zaini to Adi Hardono at Grand Mirama Hotel on October 30, 2008 ago.

Suprihat explained that based on the report, total ship calls this year have reached 75,000 units with tonnage of 200 million DWT. The figure mostly came from the ports in the eastern Indonesia region, which were still under the management of PT Pelindo
III.

Other contribution was from the increase of container throughput, which totaled 2.9 million TEUs. The development was quite exciting and he expected that all subsidiaries could grow bigger again in the future. Business sectors that contributed to the container throughput were PT TPS with 1.2 million TEUs, BJTI 900,000 TEUS, TPKS Semarang with 475,000 TEUs and several other branches ports, including PT Portek and PHC hospital.

PT Portek is a subsidiary of Pelindo III. It controls 51% stake in the company with the remaining 49% belongs to Portek
Singapore . PT Portek Indonesia has been trusted so far to conduct maintenance works at numbers of stevedoring equipment in several ports. Port operator that have used Portek Indonesia’s service are among others PT TPS, PT GJTI, TPKS, Medan Port, PT Mustika Alam and some other firms.

According to Iwan Sabatini, the Head of Public Relation of Pelindo III, the effort of grabbing higher profit is the obsession of the management, in which it must be followed by a continuous enhancement in port service that are reflected at the development of some facilities in Pelindo III. One of the project that is under construction is the development of “Nilam Multipurpose
Terminal”, with infrastructure cost of Rp 105 billion and suprastructure cost of Rp 184 billion. The terminal is expected to start the operation by April 2009.

After this project, Pelindo III will develop Jamrud Multipurpose Terminal, which then will be followed by the Lamong Bay development where the first phase of the project to develop 200 meters berth and its road access are expected to start in 2009.

At almost the same time, PT Pelindo III also succeeded to win the Awards of the Best Image of Public Service
Provider in the port service sector from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Two units under Pelindo III, TPKS Semarang and Benoa Port succeeded to win the award. The most special thing from it is Pelindo III became the only one port that can win it directly at two working units.

“Therefore, on behalf of the management, we’d like to express our thankfulness over the trust from the stakeholders and the public, and it would be a trigger of motivation for us to enhance our level of service at all Pelindo III units,” he said.

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