Bontang (ANTARA) – PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Pupuk Kaltim) has again won the 2022 Green Port Award from the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment (Kemenko Marves), for implementing port management environmentally friendly in the company’s special terminal area.

The award was received by Pupuk Kaltim, Vice President of Ports and Shipping, Sidiq Purnomo Nugroho, at the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Building, Wednesday (28/12/2022).

Sidiq revealed that the award was won for the second time based on an assessment by the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, where the Pupuk Kaltim Special Terminal was found to have met all the criteria. green port for management aspects, technical aspects such as port, K3 aspects to the environment and energy, as well as digitization aspects with achievements of 80.97%.

He said that as the first Indonesian company to win the Green Port Award in 2019, Pupuk Kaltim continues to be committed to improving environmentally friendly port governance by referring to the guidelines and assessment tools of the green ports.

This standard has been Pupuk Kaltim’s guideline since 2018, as it concerns export activities that require the company’s port to have an internationally recognized green port standard.

“Environmentally friendly port management has had a positive and significant impact on the sustainability of Pupuk Kaltim’s business processes, so various improvements have been made in its management,” Sidiq said.

He explained that obtaining the Green Port Award 2022 was also a manifestation of Pupuk Kaltim’s success in monitoring the evaluation of environmental management programs, which have been carried out in the company’s port area in recent years.

One of them is the implementation of healthy ports according to the regulation number 44 of the Minister of Health of 2014.

“Similarly, in the future, Pupuk Kaltim will continue to assess and improve services in the company’s port area, so that compliance with green and smart port criteria can be more optimal,” said Sidiq. .

Several green and smart port innovations that have been implemented so far by Pupuk Kaltim include the use of heavy equipment cranes using electricity, the replacement of conventional lighting with LEDs, carrying out emissions from operational port vehicles and the presence of living plants in the working environment.

Additionally, Pupuk Kaltim also uses eco-friendly paint, optimizes natural lighting and creates artificial lighting to maintain eye health and be productive in implementing green buildings.

Also, avoiding the use of ozone depleting substances and replacing the use of fossil energy with electrical energy (shore power), such as the implementation of Shore Power Connection in a special terminal .

“Pupuk Kaltim is committed to ensuring that programs related to port operations from an environmental perspective comply with what is required in the requirements of the Green Port Standard. Including its leadership, Pupuk Kaltim continues to implement it continuously every year,” explained Sidiq.

According to Sidiq, there are four main criteria for the preparation of a green port carried out by Pupuk Kaltim, namely from a management aspect according to the government regulation number 61 of 2009 concerning ports, including planning, policy, promotion, management systems and community empowerment.

Also, the aspect of environmental protection refers to Law Number 32 of 2009 regarding the protection and management of the environment.

In line with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles in corporate governance, Pupuk Kaltim ensures that the implementation of environmentally friendly port aspects will continue to be improved through concrete measures throughout the Harbor zone.

Thus, in the future, the green port commitment carried out by Pupuk Kaltim will contribute more positively to the environment in the company’s industrial zone.

“That is why Pupuk Kaltim conducted an assessment to further gauge the level of achievement of the implementation of Green Port in all areas of the company’s Special Terminal,” Sidiq added.

Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan thanked all parties who won the green port award this year and encouraged other ports in Indonesia to gradually meet the green port criteria.

It is also hoped that this will further motivate all stakeholders to cooperate more intensely, in order to make Indonesia a world-class sustainable port.

According to Luhut, the implementation of green and smart ports is expected to increase the added value of ports in Indonesia, as it plays an important role as a maritime country.

Moreover, Indonesia is currently the only country in Southeast Asia to be in the top 20 countries with good port performance, based on the median container ship waiting time reaching 24.9 hours. . Indonesia’s position is above other developed countries such as Italy, France, Greece, Germany, USA, Russia, Australia and Canada.

“Currently, we have completed the assessment process for 10 ports, and in the future, 149 ports will be encouraged to meet Green Port and Smart Port standards, so that Indonesian ports can compete internationally,” said said Luhut.