PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) upgrades Tarahan port capacity by developing new jetty to accommodate cape size vessels. Company is expecting to complete the project and begin operations from the mid of 2014.
PTBA is the Indonesian state owned Coal miner and operating several Coal mines in Sumatera & Kalimantan. Tarahan Coal Terminal is located at Bandar Lampung, which is around 410 km far from PTBA, a fully owned Tanjung Enim mine .
Company is working towards increasing its capacities and developing its Tarahan Port Terminal to start serving cape vessels.
According to PTBA, the completion of Tarahan port expansion will increase company’s annual capacity to 25 MnT pa from existing capacity of 13 MnT pa. Once the port is ready for commercial operation, the port will operate a newly developed jetty. The new jetty will be able to accept cape size vessels of up to 200K DWT, in addition to the existing jetty with a capacity of berthing up to Panamax vessel of 80K DWT.
According to company’s website, the company currently is operating three stockpiles. The first stockpile handles Coal form its Air Laya & Muara Tiga Besar mining unit, the second stockpile handles Coal only from Muara Tiga Besar mining unit. Meanwhile, its third stockpile handles Coal from Banko Barat mining unit.
According to company’s financial statement for the year ended 31 Dec 2013, this expansion of port will be also supported by increased capacity of Coal stockpile to 0.86 MnT from existing capacity of 0.56 MnT. The stockpile also will be equipped with two new additional RCD (Rotary Car Dumpers) by July this year to support company’s mining as well as logistic operation.
In the meantime, the government of Indonesia is also planning to cap the Coal production to push the Coal prices to upwards. Once the government impalement the output cap or reject the Coal miners request to increase their Coal output in 2014, Indonesia may maintained the same output of 2013 or even lesser.
PTBA’s total sale of Coal is reached to 17.76 MnT in 2013. The company said in January 2014, it is planning to increase its Coal sales to 24.7 MnT in 2014, up 38% from its 2013 Coal sales of 17.76 MnT. PTBA has to increase its Coal output to utilize the full capacity of Tarahan Coal terminal’s, to achieve its goals.
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