Pertamina Marine Solutions Collaborates With Two Malaysian Companies

JAKARTA - PT Pertamina Marine Solutions (PMSol), a subsidiary of PT Pertamina Trans Kontinental (PTK), is expanding its business through the signing of strategic cooperation or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two Manning Agency companies from Malaysia.

Manning Agency is a company for the provision of ship crews that support various operations, both on land and off the coast. On this occasion, PMSol collaborated with the Advanced Shipship Borneo Sdn.Bhd (PMB) and the Varia Armada Sdn.Bhd (VAR).

The signing was carried out by representatives of PMSol, namely; Manager of Crewing Offshore PMSol Capt. Budi Wahyu Syafittra, Director of PMB Awang Shapian Bin Awang Sulong, and Director of VAR Anual Bis Ismail, went straight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday last week.

PMSol Director Dian Prama Irfani said this strategic cooperation includes the provision and management of ship crews operated by PTK in Malaysian waters. This, he said, opened up opportunities for PMSol to participate in presenting international standard ship crews to compete in the global market.

"This cooperation is also a form of collaboration between Malaysian and Indonesian crew members, so that it can encourage crew capacity to be ready to compete in the international shipping world," said Irfani, Monday, July 29.

This collaboration, he continued, is also part of an important step in the PSMol journey towards the Company's vision and mission to become an international-scale company. This is in line with the need for a maritime world market for the increasing supply of crew members.

This opens up new opportunities for us to further develop business networks at the global level. We hope this will be the beginning of a series of other strategic partnerships, both at home and abroad," he explained.

PMB Director Awang Shapian Bin Awang Sulong said that the company is committed to supporting PMSol in penetrating into the international market arena.

PMSol, as a subsidiary of PTK, is part of the Subholding Integrated Marine Logistics (IML) of PT Pertamina International Shipping (PIS). PMSol has been experienced for 30 years and manages more than 5,000 workers, both ship crew and workers on land.