Patimban Deep Sea Port is an sea port at
Subang,
West Java
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,
Indonesia
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. It is located about 70 kilometers from the
Karawang Industrial Estate and 145 kilometers from the city center of capital
Jakarta
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, where many Japanese industrial firms, particularly automotive manufacturers operate. The port comprises a total area of 654 hectares in which 300 hectares will be specialized for intermodal containers and vehicle terminals while the remaining 354 hectares will be used as a back-up area. The port development is expected to be fully completed by 2027. The port operation was officially inaugurated by President
Joko Widodo
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on 20 December 2020.
Patimban port is expected to be Indonesia’s primary export port. It is also expected to solve the overcapacity of
Tanjung Priok Port A tanjung is a cape, and it is an extremely common geographical name in the Malay world. It may refer to:
* George Town, Penang in the Malay language
* Tanjung, Tabalong, the capital city of Tabalong Regency, in South Kalimantan province of Indo ...
and traffic congestion in Jakarta from the transport of cargo. Patimban Port was first operated by state-run shipping company Pelindo but later the management handed over jointly by Pelabuhan Patimban International (PPI) and Toyota Tshusho Corporation, the trading arm of Japanese auto giant
Toyota Motor Corporation.
History and development
The deep sea port was planned to build at Cilamaya, but that was too close to an oil and gas field operated by
Pertamina
PT Pertamina (Persero), formerly abbreviated from ''Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak dan Gas Bumi Negara'' (lit. 'State Oil and Natural Gas Mining Company'), is an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation based in Jakarta. It was cr ...
. It was decided to shift the location at Patimban in 2015. There is already a small operating sea port at Patimban. Patimban Port would complement
Tanjung Priok Port A tanjung is a cape, and it is an extremely common geographical name in the Malay world. It may refer to:
* George Town, Penang in the Malay language
* Tanjung, Tabalong, the capital city of Tabalong Regency, in South Kalimantan province of Indo ...
in the future. Patimban port is declared as a ''National Strategic Project'' to expedite the construction.
Total cost of the project is estimated to cost Rp 43 trillion (US$3.29 billion) and the first phase of its construction will cost Rp 17 trillion (US$1.5 billion). Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced it was ready to sign a loan agreement with the government of Indonesia to finance the project. The port is being built by a consortium of five companies: Japan's Penta-Ocean Construction, TOA Corporation, Rinkai Nissan Construction and Indonesian state-owned construction companies PT Wijaya Karya and PT Pembangunan Perumahan.
The port will be able to handle containers of 3.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) when the first stage is completed in 2020. The capacity will be expanded to 5.5 million TEUs in the second stage and then to 7.5 million TEUs in the final stage by 2027, which is half the capacity of Jakarta’s
Tanjung Priok Port A tanjung is a cape, and it is an extremely common geographical name in the Malay world. It may refer to:
* George Town, Penang in the Malay language
* Tanjung, Tabalong, the capital city of Tabalong Regency, in South Kalimantan province of Indo ...
, the busiest port of Indonesia.
Land transport
A toll road of approximately 37 kilometers from
Cipali Toll Road will connect the port, which is expected to complete by June, 2020.
See also
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List of Indonesian ports
List of ports in Indonesia, sorted by location.
Java
* Port of Cirebon, Cirebon, West Java
*Port of Merak, Banten
*Port of Tanjung Priok, Jakarta
*Ciwandan, Banten
*Sunda Kelapa, Jakarta
* Port of Patimban, Subang Regency, West Java
*Port of Pr ...
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Ministry of Transportation, Indonesia
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Transport in Indonesia
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All modes ...
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Subang Regency
Subang Regency (Sundanese script: , Latin: Kabupatén Subang) is a regency (''kabupaten'') in West Java province, Indonesia. The Regency is bordered by the Java Sea in the north, Indramayu Regency in the east, Sumedang Regency in the southeast, We ...
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