Perumka tenders 48 projects on express train<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The state railway company Perusahaan Umum Kereta
\nApi (Perumka) is inviting private companies to cooperate in 48
\nprojects for express train operation and land development.<\/p>\n
Perumka's new president, Soemino Eko Saputro, told reporters
\nafter his installation ceremony yesterday that four private
\ncompanies have proposed establishing join operations of express
\ntrains in Java.<\/p>\n
\"The proposals are still being studied,\" said Soemino, who
\nreplaced Anwar Suprijadi.<\/p>\n
Besides Soemino, Minister of Transportation Haryanto
\nDhanutirto installed Edy Haryoto, Sjahedi Junardiono, Widjanarko
\nand Sumiarso Sonny, respectively, as Perumka's directors of
\nfinance, technical affairs, operation and general affairs.<\/p>\n
The minister also installed Darius Djana as president and
\nSodin Sjafrudin as operational director of PT Damri, a bus
\ntransportation company. Sri Tidarno, Djaman S. Ginting and Ahmad
\nMuchlasin were sworn in, respectively, as Damri's directors of
\nfinance, technical affairs and general affairs.<\/p>\n
Soemino, who wouldn't name the four proposing companies, said
\nthat the planned projects include trains that will serve the
\nJakarta-Merak (West Java), Jakarta-Yogyakarta, Jakarta-Surabaya
\n(East Java), and Jakarta-Bandung-Sukabumi (West Java) routes.<\/p>\n
Perumka plans to launch at least three express trains in
\nAugust to coincide with the commemoration of the country's 50th
\nindependence anniversary. The three trains will include the
\nJS950, which will link Jakarta and Surabaya in nine hours, the
\nJB250 linking Jakarta and Bandung in two hours, and the JY650
\nlinking Jakarta and Yogyakarta in six hours.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation said that PT
\nLorinta Mitra Guna, PT Arion Paramita or PT Marga Mandala Sakti
\nwill likely run the express trains in cooperation with Perumka,
\nunder joint operation arrangements.<\/p>\n
\"Lorinta is interested in the Jakarta-Bandung route, Marga in
\nthe Jakarta-Merak route and Arion in the Jakarta-Solo (Central
\nJava) route,\" the spokesman said. \"Another, private company, PT
\nMitra Guna Tribakti, proposes to provide a cement railway service
\nin Gresik of East Java.\"<\/p>\n
Land<\/p>\n
He said that out of the 48 offered projects, 32 are railway
\nservices while the others are for land development.<\/p>\n
He explained that Perumka wants some of its land in Jakarta,
\nBandung, Surabaya and Medan in North Sumatra to be developed by
\nprivate companies into office buildings, hotels, shop-houses and
\nother business facilities.<\/p>\n
In Jakarta, for instance, Perumka owns a 10-hectare plot in
\nKampung Bandan Baru of North Jakarta, on which PT Bakti Bangun
\nEra Cipta has proposed to develop a shopping mall and hotel
\ncomplex.<\/p>\n
Two private companies in Surabaya, including PT Tirtamaya
\nSubur and PT Grahaniaga Jayautama, have also proposed developing
\nPerumka's plots of land, each with a width of 1.8 hectares and
\n7.3 hectares, as office buildings and shop-houses.(icn)<\/p>",
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