Pelindo Regional 4 exceeded targets in cargo throughput, ship calls, and passengers last year, thanks to the standardization and transformation programs the Pelindo had done overall its ports nationwide, especially the ports in East Indonesia.
Pelindo Regional 4 manage and operate as many as 22 ports in East Indonesia. Pelindo Regional 4 reported that its achievement in throughput, ship calls, and passengers were over 100% compared to the previous year (2022) and exceeded its yearly target (RKAP 2023).
“Our ship calls reached 110.65%, compared to previous year of 2022,” explained Regional Head of Pelindo Regional 4 Enriany Muis.
She said, total ship calls during 2023 reached 437,332,884 GT, increasing from 395,234,436 GT in 2022. The throughput, meanwhile, reached 43,124,530 ton/m3 or 137.50% compared to 31,363,790 ton/m3 in 2022.
The total passengers overall its 22 ports in East Indonesia reached 6,709,980 or 115.75% of its previous year (2022) realization that reached 5,796,957 heads.
Digital Transformation
Enriany underlined that digital transformation has pushed and encouraged the ports in East Indonesia to enjoy such positive performance. She names digital application that have been applied at these ports, including PHINNISI, TONUS, PITOS-M, and PITOS-R.
The adoption of the four applications, she said, had boosted the performance of the ports of Pelindo Regional 4 which are located in East Indonesia.
PHINNISI, an application for ship service activities starting from requests, planning, operations, billing, reporting, integration to Inaportnet has been installed at ports of Makassar, Samarinda, Kendari, Pantoloan, Bitung, Ambon, Merauke, and Sorong.
TONUS, an application for container terminal activities starting from requests, planning, operations and reporting has been installed at the Makassar Container Terminal (TPM) – now called TPK New Makassar Terminal 1 – and Ambon Container Terminal.
PTOS-M, an application for both general cargoes and container at conventional terminals starting from requests, planning, operations and reporting has been installed at Makassar, Bitung, Balikpapan, Tarakan, Pantoloan, Sorong, Jayapura, and Gorontalo.
Meanwhile, PTOS-R, a system for Roro and passenger ship services has been installed at Makassar Port, Balikpapan and Sorong Port, and will soon be installed at Ambon, Nunukan and Samarinda Port.
With those applications, explained Enriany, all activities at ports can be monitored at any time 24 hours in 7 days from within a control room located on the 3rd floor of the Makassar New Port (MNP) office.
“From the control room, all port activities in Region 4 can be monitored through the four applications. So, everything is now completely digital. Ships and cargo owners can also monitor the movement of their ships and cargoes through the four applications, from anywhere and at any time, without having to go to the Pelindo office,” concluded Enriany.
Pelindo Regional 4 Operational Division Head Yusida M. Palesang added that the adoption of applications had helped to cut port stays and cargo stays. “Such faster service have encouraged more ship calls throughout our ports (Pelindo Regional ports),” explained Yusida.
