After Merger, Pelindo Reveals Steps To Reduce Emissions

JAKARTA - President Director of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Persero) or Pelindo Arif Suhartono explained the company's steps to reduce carbon emissions two years after the merger.

He explained that the first step taken was to transform the company's services.

After the merger in 2021, Pelindo's main task is to transform services that have had a lot of disparities between port services in western Indonesia and Eastern Indonesia.

"In the internal, how Pelindo improves logistics smoothness is by shortening the port stay and cargo stay. What happened was a down port stay of up to 50 percent," he said at the CEO of Forum, Monday, October 23.

He explained that the poert stay, which previously lasted 3 days, now only lasted for one and a half days which resulted in a decrease in the energy consumption of the ship.

Furthermore, he explained, when we activate loading and unloading for 3 days, it also has an impact on the activeness of all ship resources including energy consumption and ship engines. By shortening the port stay, energy usage is reduced to only one-third of the total consumption.

Pelindo's second thing, continued Arif, was to replace the energy source consumed by the ship while leaning on the port. Ships that previously used diesel energy began to switch to using electrification provided by PLN.

"What we are doing is shifting. Many tools that used to use diesel energy we shifted towards electrification. So all of our loading and unloading equipment, of course, 60-70 percent came from PLTU, but of course it is much smaller than the diesel energy we use," explained Arif.

The third step taken was to sign the ship's engine operation with a short connection energy from PLN to answer the electricity needs of the large and medium ship segment to charge.

"Operation engines are engines to revive operations such as AC and so on, we encourage them to be nucleard and use energy from the ground, which we call short connection energy which is provided by PLN so that engine acceleration can be turned off at ports, which of course he does not produce emissions," explained Arif.

While the last step taken is to develop the use of solar panels which are starting to be carried out in stages. Although not large, the ship will use the energy produced by solar panels for ship lighting during the day.

"We will also gradually find out there, so we will push the roofs. Even if we don't need batteries, the energy that can be used during the day from solar panels is the processes that are currently running in Pelindo," he concluded.