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Environment document for Patimban port approved
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Workers are finishing the construction of a peer at Patimban seaport in Subang, West Java. (tempo.co/Nanang Sutisna)
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he Environment and Forestry Ministry has approved the environment document for a Indonesia-Japan flagship deep seaport project in Patimban, West Java, an official has said.
The environmental impact analysis (Amdal) document for the U$3 billion project was approved on Tuesday, Transportation Ministry director general for sea transportation Antonius Tonny Budiono said.
“It’s pretty fast. The project detail plan [RIP] for Patimban has also been completed,” he told The Jakarta Post on Thursday, adding that the next step would be the project location submission (Penlok) and the detailed engineering design (DED) before the loan was finally approved.
(Read also: Government will construct ‘U’ islet for Patimban seaport: Official)
Documents like Amdal are needed to secure loan agreements with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is slated to cover an estimated US$1.7 billion from the total value of the project.
The port will have a container capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) once it is partly completed in 2019 and then 7.5 million TEUs by 2027, which is around half the capacity of Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok part, the country’s busiest port.
It will be located about 70 kilometers from the Karawang Industrial Estate and Bekasi in West Java, where many Japanese industrial firms, particularly automotive manufacturers, operate. (bbn)
