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As with many businesses in Southeast

Asia, the Bahtera Bahari Shipyard on In- donesia’s Batam Island is a family busi- ness. Although the present company was founded only recently, in 2005, the fam- ily’s association with the marine world of

Indonesia extends back several decades.

One of four children Ms. Tresya, the old- est of two sisters, has completed her training in program management in Aus- tralia. She is now a director of the com- pany and involved in marketing and bringing modern management models to the shipyard as well as an extensive net- work of inter-related companies. She re- cently gave a very brief account of the company’s history.

Her father, Hengky Suryawan, who was born in 1949, began a small ferry com- pany on Tanjung Pinang Island. As this expanded he learned that transporting inanimate cargos such as logs and coal was a more profitable and much more straight forward. The logistics of arrang- ing cargos let to the development of a shipping company of tugs and barges.

This, in turn, led to the acquisition of a quarry and then coal and iron oar mining properties. What began as a company re- pair yard has morphed into a full shipyard doing new construction of landing craft, tugs and barges.

Now as the four children come of age they are moving into the management of the group of companies. Having grown up around boats and shipyards they are able to apply their overseas educations in a pragmatic fashion that is leading to a stronger fusion of traditional and modern technologies and management. Ms.

Tresya’s eldest brother, Selamat Budi- man, is the Director of the Company’s

Group while the other bother, Selamet

Widodo, is director of the shipping com- pany and a brother-in-law, Mr.

Rudiyanto, is the shipyard general man- ager.

On a recent visit to the yard on Batam

Island, Ms. Tresya showed visitors around the yard and toured a recently launched tug, one of three 29 by 8-meter boats moored to a cluster of new barges.

The Marina 30 identifies as one of the boats belonging to the family’s extensive fleet all of which are named Marina.

This class of vessel is a good-sized 29 by 8-meter tug with a 3.7-meter molded depth. The functional and roomy wheel- house has dual sets of engine controls, one each for the port and starboard main engines. The uncluttered control panel in- cluded remote starts for the generator sets, a rudder indicator, compass, VHF and SSB radios, a radar, a GPS and echo sounder.

Two decks down, the functionality is repeated in the engine room. The two big

Cummins KTA38-M2 diesels, each gen- erating 1200 HP at 1800 RPM, turn into

Masson Marine W5200 gears with 5.955:1 reductions. Electrical services are met with a single Cummins 4BT3.9-GI powered 50 kW generator.

The air-conditioned accommodation area includes a comfortable lounge/mess area with a separate compact galley on the port side.

On the tug’s bow an electric-powered anchor winch provides a maximum torque of two tons. On the after deck a 40-ton towing hook is mounted just aft of the main cabin.

The Marina 30 has joined the company fleet providing charter services but also moving coal, iron oar and aggregate from the family’s other operations.

VESSELS

The Next Generation

Bahtera Bahari Shipyard

New tug and barge at the Bahtera Bahari Shipyard. (Haig-Br own photos cour tesy of Cummins Marine) 9

Mr. Fauzi, project manager, with quick release towing hook. (Haig-Br own photos cour tesy of Cummins Marine) 9

Tresya and Rudiyanto with a new-build from the Bahtera Bahari Shipyard. (Haig-Br own photos cour tesy of Cummins Marine) 9