Pelindo 3 Records Ship Current Performance At Port Reaching 115 Percent In 2023

JAKARTA - PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Persero) Regional 3 recorded the performance of ship currents at ports managed until December 2023, as many as 103,097 units with a total of 394,765,197 GT or 115 percent on an annual basis (yoy).Regional Head 3 Pelindo Ardhy Wahyu Basuki in his statement in Surabaya, Friday, January 12, said that for non-terminal current performance, 53.47 million tons / m3 reached 100 percent (yoy) and specifically for passenger flow, a significant increase of 4.67 million people or 123 percent (yoy).

Meanwhile, for the flow of containers recorded as much as 4.58 million boxes or 103 percent (yoy) with a total of 5.77 million TEUs or 103 percent (yoy). "There are many factors that make our achievements quite positive this year, one of which is post-pandemic economic growth, we are optimistic that this achievement will last until the end of this year," he said, quoted from Antara., as reported by Antara. In addition, his party also confirmed that they would receive visits to 107 cruise ships by bringing 172,750 tourists scheduled to stop in Eastern Indonesia throughout 2024.Ardhy predicts, until the end of 2024, the total could reach 172 cruise ships with more than 200 thousand tourists, surpassing visits in the same period in 2023. Even though throughout 2023 it shows positive growth, it continues to strive to improve service trends. "A number of strategic plans are prepared to improve port services from various sectors," he said. Aridhy explained, there are three strategic plans that Pelindo will work on, namely establishing increased cooperation with State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) and private parties.

Furthermore, the plan to build a jetty in the Batang Integrated Industrial Zone (KITB) is also one of the company's strategic plans next year.

"We will optimize the use of land and port facilities, as has been done, namely optimizing Benoa and Gilimas ports as home/turn around ports, and optimizing idle land in several ports," he said.