KAI provides more wagons, locomotives to boost PTBA coal transportation
Tuesday, August 16 2011 - 03:49 AM WIB
State-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam Tbk (Persero) (PTBA) said that coal volume transportation using existing railway, which belongs to state railway firm PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) from its mine in Tanjung Enim, South Sumatra to Tarahan port in Lampung province will increase to 15 million tonnes of coal a year from 11.5 million tonnes, currently
PTBA and KAI have committed to keep increasing the coal transport capacity, PTBA president director Sukrisno told Petromindo.com recently. ?KAI will provide 240 more wagons and six locomotives by the end of 2011,? he said.
With the additional wagons and locomotives, KAI will have a total of 1,200 wagons and 48 locomotives. One wagon has the capacity to transport 50 tonnes coal. Therefore next year the total volume of coal transported from PTBA using KAI?s railway will increase to 15 million tonnes, Sukrisno said. (denny)