KAI Transports 63.69 Million Tons Of Goods In 2023

JAKARTA - PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) recorded that it had transported 63,694,966 tons of goods in 2023, an increase of 10 percent compared to 2022 of 58,006,880 tons of goods.

KAI's VP of Public Relations Joni Martinus explained that the increase in KAI's freight transportation in 2023 was due to an increase in demand for market share related to goods transportation in Indonesia.

"This was immediately used by KAI by making efforts to add goods train trips from 322 Goods train trips in 2022 to 328 trains in 2023," said Joni in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Monday, January 29.

The commodities that experienced the highest increase were coal, up 12 percent from 45.4 million tons to 51.0 million tons. The increase also occurred in retail transportation, up 9 percent from 208,980 tons to 228,631 tons. Positive trends also occur in other commodities such as cement and clinics, fuel, and other commodities.

KAI serves various goods transport commodities such as containers, coal, cement, fuel, plantations, fertilizers, retail, and others. According to Joni, freight transportation using trains has various advantages such as timeliness, security, large capacity, free of illegal levies, and managed by professional human resources.

One of the additional trains is its very large capacity. One carriage can carry 50 tons or the size of 2 container trucks. In fact, a series of coal transport trains in southern Sumatra can pull 60 carriages or 3,000 tons at once. If a truck needs approximately 120 trucks, "said Joni.

By 2024, KAI targets to transport 68.3 million tons, an increase of 7 percent compared to 2023. KAI will continue to innovate in order to increase the volume and performance of freight transport by train.

Joni said KAI will continue to develop goods transportation facilities and infrastructure as well as look for potential commodities and transportation relations for new goods.

Other innovations in the transportation of KAI goods in 2024 include the conversion of ordinary baggage trains into cooled baggage trains for fishery distribution. As well as the transformation of the KAI freight transportation business model from the Station to Station (S2S) service pattern to End-to-End (E2E) through collaboration between logistics players.

"KAI Group continues to build collaborations in SOE synergies on Logistics clusters for inter-island E2E freight transport services and continued operations to support competitive logistics costs and reduce externality impacts such as congestion, pollution, damaged roads, and increase global competitiveness," said Joni.