Container terminal opens

Container terminal opens

JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto inaugurated a new container terminal at the Panjang port in Bandar Lampung yesterday and a number of other transportation projects in Lampung.

The new container terminal, which cost Rp 56.6 billion (US$24 million), provides a 300-meter berth 12 meters in depth, loading and unloading equipment, gantry cranes and a computerized documentation system.

Another new facility worth Rp 54 billion is to be developed at the seaport; it will have a berth 15 meters in depth, a warehouse, and a container field.

The planned terminal is scheduled to be operational by the end of 1997, the Antara news agency reported.

The transportation projects also inaugurated yesterday include the third berth at the Bakauheni sea-crossing facility in Lampung, a railway station emplacement worth Rp 2.15 billion and 80 railway wagons and other facilities worth Rp 8.5 billion. (icn)