KAI Successfully Transported 50.98 Million Tons Of Goods To The Third Quarter Of 2024

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JAKARTA - PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) or KAI recorded a positive performance on freight transportation. Where during the period January to September 2024, KAI managed to transport 50,987,328 tons of goods.

KAI VP Public Relations Anne Purba said the figure increased by 8 percent compared to the same period from January to September 2023 as much as 47,174,683 tons of goods.

"The growth in freight transport is supported by the addition of travel and route frequencies, as well as the addition of coal carriages in one series at the Palembang III Divre and Tanjungkarang IV Divre. This KAI does to respond to the increase in customer demand for goods transportation by train," he said in a statement, Friday, October 4.

Anne said coal transportation dominates with a total of 40,828,696 tons or 80 percent of the total KAI goods transportation.

He said coal transportation is more concentrated in southern Sumatra which is usually needed to support national energy supply.

"In addition to coal, almost all other commodities show positive growth, ranging from 5 percent to 71 percent," said Anne.

Furthermore, Anne said that in terms of timeliness, departure or arrival of goods trains also experienced an increase in performance.

From January to August 2024, he continued, the timeliness rate for goods train departures reached 94.64 percent, an increase compared to the same period in 2023, which was 92.35 percent.

The timeliness rate for the arrival of goods trains from January to August 2024 reached 90.6 percent, an increase compared to the same period in 2023, which was 86.02 percent.

The improvement in the timeliness of this train is achieved through improving the quality of overall operational performance, including maintenance of facilities and infrastructure. Time coincidence is one of the advantages of train transportation that is congested free, so that customers, including commodity entrepreneurs, explained Anne.

Anne also said that KAI serves various goods transportation commodities such as containers, coal, cement, fuel, CPO, fertilizers, retail, and others.

According to Anne, freight transport using trains has various advantages such as timeliness, security, large capacity, free of illegal levies, and managed by professional human resources.

"The transportation of goods by train is certainly more supportive of the efficiency of logistics costs, reducing congestion, pollution, road damage. In addition, this is one of KAI's contributions in increasing global economic competitiveness," concluded Anne.