Arpeni signed transhipment contract with ABM

By Romel S. Gurky

IDX-listed shipping company PT Arpeni Pratama Ocean Line Tbk has on May 25 signed coal transhipment contract with PT Baruna Dirga Dharma, a subsidiary of PT ABM Investama Tbk.

The contract, valid for a year, mount to a total of 4 million tons of coal to be transhiped .

Coal transhipment will be done using Arpeni's floating crane with the installed capacity of 20.000 tons per day, to be placed at the coal transhipment point run by ABM subsidiary PT Tunas Inti Abadi, in Muara Satui, South Kalimantan.

Arpeni has also signed similar contract with PT Borneo Marine Service, a subsidiary of Johnlin Group, this April. Valid for a year, the contract covers the transhipment of 2.4 million tons of coal using Arpeni's floating crane, to be situated in Tanjung Pemancingan, South Kalimantan.

Arpeni currently owns and operates 74 mother vessels of various sizes such as capesize, panamax, handysize, tanker, barges, floating cranes and crew boats with total loading capacity amounting to more than 1 million DWT.

Editing by Er Audy Zandri