PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Pupuk Kaltim) again won the 2022 Green Port Award from the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment (Kemenko Marves), for implementing environmentally sound port governance in the company's special terminal area. The award was received by Pupuk Kaltim VP of Ports and Shipping Sidiq Purnomo Nugroho, at the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Building, Wednesday (28/12/2022). Sidiq revealed, the award for the second time was won based on an assessment carried out by the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, where the Pupuk Kaltim special terminal was deemed to have met all the Green Port criteria for management aspects, technical aspects such as port, K3 aspects to environment and energy, as well as digitalization aspects with achievements of 80 .97%. He said, as the first company in Indonesia to win the Green Port Award in 2019, Pupuk Kaltim continues to be committed to improving environmentally friendly port governance by referring to the Green Port Guideline and Rating Tools. This standard has been Pupuk Kaltim's guideline since 2018, because it relates to 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 that various improvements have been made in its management," said Sidiq.
He explained, the achievement of the 2022 Green Port Award is also a manifestation of Pupuk Kaltim's success in following up on the evaluation of environmental management programs, which have been realized in the company's port area in recent years. One of them is the implementation of a healthy port in accordance with Permenkes Number 44 of 2014. "Likewise going forward, Pupuk Kaltim will continue to evaluate and improve services in the company's port area, so that the fulfillment of 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, replacing conventional lighting with LEDs, conducting port operational vehicle emission tests, and having live plants in the work environment. In addition, Pupuk Kaltim also uses environmentally friendly paint, optimizes natural lighting and creates artificial lighting to maintain eye health and be productive in implementing green buildings. Furthermore, avoiding the use of ozone-depleting substances and replacing the use of fossil energy with electrical energy (shore power), as the implementation of Shore Power Connection at a special terminal. "Pupuk Kaltim is committed to ensuring that programs related to port operations with an environmental perspective are in accordance with what is required in the green port standard requirements. Including its management, Pupuk Kaltim continues to implement it continuously every year," explained Sidiq. According to Sidiq, there are four main criteria for preparing a green port carried out by Pupuk Kaltim, namely from a Management aspect according to Government regulation number 61 of 2009 concerning Ports, including planning, policy, promotion, management system and community empowerment. Furthermore, the aspect of Environmental Protection refers to Law number 32 of 2009 concerning environmental protection and management.
In line with the principles of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) in corporate governance, Pupuk Kaltim ensures that the implementation of environmentally friendly port aspects will continue to be improved through concrete steps as a whole in the port area. So that in the future the green port commitment realized by Pupuk Kaltim will increasingly contribute positively to the environment in the company's industrial area. The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, appreciated 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 intensively, in order to realize Indonesia towards a world-class sustainable port. According to Luhut, the implementation of green and smart ports is expected to increase added value for ports in Indonesia, because they play an important role as a maritime country. Moreover, currently Indonesia is the only one in Southeast Asia which is included in the top 20 countries with good port performance, based on the median waiting time for container ships reaching 24.9 hours. Indonesia's position is above other developed countries such as Italy, France, Greece, Germany, the United States, Russia, Australia and Canada.
