Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: February | Volume: 8 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 530-538
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210266
Comparative Analysis of CPO Transportation in Sumatera Utara Province
Ade Rezkika Nasution1, Diana Chalil2, Satya Negara Lubis2
1,2Master of Agribusiness on Faculty of Agriculture of University of Sumatera Utara
Corresponding Author: Ade Rezkika Nasution
ABSTRACT
Sumatera Utara province is the second largest palm oil producer in Indonesia. In the future, given the increasingly congested road traffic conditions and contain more risks, train is a solution in transporting large amounts of CPO, fast and efficient. Based on the Transport Infographic Indonesia - Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative 2015-2016 reported, users of goods transported by train are only about 1% of the total logistics distribution trips. About 90% is dominated by road transportation, less than 1% air transportation and 8% sea transportation. In the Master Plan Percepatan, Perluasan dan Pembangunan Ekonomi Indonesia (MP3EI) states that the Sumatera corridor needs important economic policies, one of them is the construction of a railway. The data used are annual time series data, namely in the form of production data, CPO transport volume in 2010-2018; length of rails and roads in 2018 and CPO transportation rates from PKS (palm oil mill) to Belawan Port. The objectives of this study were (1) to analyze the rate increasing of production and volume of CPO transportation by train in Sumatera Utara Province in 2010-2018; (2) to compare the comparison of rail lengths, national and provincial long roads to regional areas in Sumatera Utara Province in 2018; (3) to analyze the different of the cost of goods transportation by train and tank truck in the cost of CPO transportation for each PKS to the Port of Belawan and (4) to analyze the relationship between the cost of CPO transportation by train and tank truck with the distance of each PKS to the Port of Belawan. The data analysis method which is used in this study is descriptive analysis, the mean difference test and free from. The results of this study indicate that: the first, the growth of CPO production in Sumatera Utara in 2011-2018 increased, while the growth of CPO transportation volume by train decreased. The second, the ratio of the length of the rail to the area is lower than the ratio of the length of the road to each regency area in 2018. The third, there is a significant difference between the average cost of CPO transportation by train and tank truck, and the cost of train is cheaper than tank truck Rp 142.48 per ton km. The fourth, there is a perfect and positive relationship between the cost of CPO transportation and the distance.
Keywords: comparison of transportation cost, CPO transportation, train, tank truck.
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