Indonesia: Kalimantan’s Kijing Port Expected to Operate by 2019

• Jan 31, 2017

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – State-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II (Persero) is targeting the operation of parts of Kijing Port terminal in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, by 2019.

The international port will serve the province’s downstream sector, which includes crude palm oil and aluminum.

PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II official Dani Rusli Utama said that the port project will be carried out in three phases: The first phase is the construction of container and multipurpose terminal. The second phase is the construction of container and liquid bulk cargo terminal. The third phase is the construction of dry and liquid bulk cargo terminal.

“The first phase: container and multipurpose [terminal], with roughly Rp2 trillion investment,” he said. All in all, the three phases of development will cost Rp5 trillion according to Dani.

Pelindo II needs to improve Kijing International Port due to Pontianak Port’s limited capacity of 217,000 TEUs. Meanwhile, Kijing’s container and multipurpose terminal in the first phase of the project is expected to have a capacity of around 500,000 TEUs.

The port, Dani went on, will have a huge potential due to its depth of minus 15m low water spring (LWS), meaning that dredging work will not be required.

Source: https://en.tempo.co/read/news/2017/01/31/056841394/Kalimantans-Kijing-Port-Expected-to-Operate-by-2019