Pelindo III plans self-generating cargo port<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): State-owned PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III has begun
\ndesigning the country's first self-generating cargo port.<\/p>\n
Pelabuhan Indonesia III president Herman Priyatno said
\nyesterday the cargo port would be built on reclaimed land
\nadjacent to the Surabaya and Gresik ports in East Java.<\/p>\n
A self-generating cargo port derives its cargo traffic from
\nindustrial plants operating around it, in its supporting area.<\/p>\n
Herman said that each hectare of industrial plants in its
\nsupporting area should transport between 10,000 and 15,000 tons
\nof cargo a year through the planned port.<\/p>\n
This means that if the reclaimed area totaled 3,400 hectares,
\nbetween 34 million and 50 million tons of cargo would be flowing
\ninto and out of the port.<\/p>\n
Herman said this was the reason that reclaimed land should be
\ndeveloped into industrial estates and export processing zones,
\nnot into housing complexes.<\/p>\n
He cited a successful self-generating cargo port in Rotterdam,
\nthe Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Herman said the biggest advantage of such ports was their
\nability to save transportation costs. The cost of transporting a
\ncontainer of twenty-feet equivalent units 60 kilometers overland
\nto a port is about Rp 400,000 (US$173.9).<\/p>\n
Herman was quoted by Antara as saying that Surabaya's Tanjung
\nPerak port and Gresik port were ideal for the project because the
\nharbor could be deepened to between 14 and 16 meters to
\naccommodate third-generation vessels.<\/p>\n
He said the port's development would require the participation
\nof many government offices because the port would need supporting
\nfacilities such as toll roads, electricity and clean water.<\/p>\n
He said land would have to be acquired to make way for access
\nroads and mangrove forests must be removed for reclamation.<\/p>\n
In a separate development, officials of the Jambi provincial
\ngovernment in central Sumatra announced that a Rp 2.5 billion
\nexport harbor would be built in Muara Sabak, Tanjung Jabung
\nregency.<\/p>\n
The head of the Ministry of Transportation's provincial
\noffice, Usman Duni, said the area had been selected because it
\nwas deep enough to accommodate ships of up to 15,000 dead weight
\ntons.<\/p>\n
The port would mainly handle crude palm oil (CPO) exports, he
\nsaid, so a CPO storage facility would be built there.<\/p>\n
Jambi's eight CPO processing plants produce 270 tons of CPO an
\nhour.<\/p>\n
Usman said the Talang Duku port, which officially opened last
\nyear, could not handle CPO shipments because it did not have a
\nCPO storage facility. (pwn)<\/p>",
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