REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- State-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) I reported Rp1.2 trillion in income in the first half of this year or an increase of 22.2 percent in a year.

"In the first six months of 2015, Pelindo I posted Rp272 billion in net profit or an increase of 16.24 percent from Rp234 billion in the same period last year," its president director Bambang Eka Cahyana, said here on Wednesday.

Bambang attributed the increase in income to growing operational activities "in line with the program to optimize activities at ports."

Additional equipment resulted an increase in loading and unloading capacity and activities, he said, adding Previously cranes were used only in the sea not they are also used on land boosting productivity.

With new equipment crane lifting capacity could be up to 50 tons per hour from only 20 tons previously, he cited.

In the first half of 2015, flows of goods reached 35 million tons , up from 26 million on-year and production rose from 9.769 million tons to 10.676 million tons.

Container cargoes, however, declined from 523,000 units in the first half of 2014 to 501,000 units in the first six mo9nths of 2015.

"Despite the decline in the number of containers the volume increased," he said.

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The tonnage of dry bulk cargoes rose to 414,000 tons from 408,000 tons.

Pelindo I operates 17 ports in Sumatra.

In 2015, the company sets aside Rp1.2 trillion for capital expenditure to be used to expansion of a number of ports.

"Until June 2015, investment has reached 30 percent of the allocation, which is mostly or 80 percent raised from internal fund with the rest in loan from subsidiaries," Eka said.

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