Management of Logistic and Material: Summary of Company Visit PT.Kencana Citra Nusantara, Marunda, Jakarta Utara, Indonesia

On February, 06th 2016. We as Student of Diploma-3 Logistics and Materials Management were has a Company Visit to PT.KCN, Marunda, North Jakarta. In there we saw some Logistics Activities specially in Loading-Unloading activity. As we know PT.KCN is a Port that provided the Loading and Unloading Activity Services.

PT.KCN were has some Commodity that usually served is like Coal, Sand, CPO, etc. The Commodities came from the other Regions in Indonesia (impor dalam Negeri). PT. Karya Nusantara Citra is a Joint Venture between PT. Nusantara Bonded Zone (KBN) and PT. Karya Teknik Utama. Primary business PT. KCN is as inter-island port management (inter) in Marunda.

The company provides several services such as:

a. providers dock

b. Providing land buildup

c. Unloading and loading

d. weigher

e. Tracking

In there i saw the process of Coal’s Unloading from the Barge (Tongkang) to the Trucks.The Process were started from the Barge which would be moved closer to the Port and called the Tug Boat to helped the Barge to Docked into the Port. After the Barge have to be docked, the Excavators will be Going Up onto the Barge and the Excavators have to moved the Coals from the Barge into the Trucks. After the Truck have fulled by the Coals, the truck will be moved to the Truck Scale to be weighed. For got the net weight we should weighed the empty truck to know how much the weight of the truck (just the truck) and record it. The truck that fulled by the Coals should be weighed too and recorded it of course. After we recorded the weight of the both, we just need to reduces between the fulled truck weight with the empty truck weight and we will get the net weight. After that the other Truck will be processed the same way trough till the Barge empty from the Coals and the trucks will be delivered it t the customers.

The Definition Of Jetty, Barge and Tug Boat

JETTY

Jetty is a specially designed building on a port that is used for tethered or a shipping / docked to the loading and unloading of goods and passengers. Not just as a place to do a spot of loading and unloading of goods or passengers, but the jetty is also used as a place to conduct refueling vessels, clean water, drinking water or dirty channel.

Provision of the pier at PT. KCN for berthing / docking ship so they can perform advanced services such as mooring, loading or waiting for other services (docking, processing of documents and others).

BARGE

Barge or pontoon is a type of vessel with a flat stomach or a big box that floats, used for transporting goods and towed by tugs or are used to accommodate the ebb and flow like the floating dock.

tonkang itself does not have a propulsion system (propulsion) such vessels in general. Making the barge is also different because the construction only, without a system like ships in general. Barge itself is commonly used to transport bulk cargo in bulk such as wood, coal, sand and others.

TUGBOAT

Tugs / tug boat is a vessel that can be used to maneuver / movement, the main pull or push other ships in the harbor or the high seas. Similarly tugboat used to pull barges, broken, and other equipment.

Tugboat has high maneuverability, depending on the drive unit. Delay ships with conventional propulsion has a propeller at the rear, efficient to pull the boat from the port to other ports. Other movers type often called Schottel propulsion system (azimuth thruster / Z-Peller) in which the propeller under the ship can move 360 ° or Voith-Schneider propulsion system that uses such a knife under the ship to make the vessel rotates 360 °