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West Kalimantan’s international port to begin operations in 2020
For a total cost of about Rp 14 trillion ($988.4 million), the new Kijing port is to have a container terminal with a capacity for up to 2 million 20-foot equivalent units.
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The board on Kijing Beach informs the public about the construction of the Kijing international port in Mempawah, West Kalimantan. The first stage of the port construction is scheduled for completion in 2020 (JP/Severianus Endi)
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thick grey smog was covering the air and sky above the construction site of the Kijing seaport terminal in Sungai Kunyit village, Mempawah, West Kalimantan in late September. However, despite the pollution over Kijing Beach that day, the construction of the port was unaffected.
The initial stage of the construction of the port, one of the government’s national strategic infrastructure projects, is underway and scheduled for completion in 2020.
Located 80 kilometers from Pontianak, the world-class port is being built as an expansion of the existing Dwikora Port in Pontianak, which has begun to suffer from a lack of capacity.
The Indonesia Port Corporation's (IPC) senior vice president for strategic project management, Zuhri Iryansyah, said the Kijing port would be developed as an ‘‘ultimate’’ seaport terminal, using the latest port technology.
“We plan to make the Kijing seaport an ultimate terminal. It will have a jetty five kilometers in length and a depth of about 15 meters, so it will become a world-class seaport that can accommodate many big ships in the future,” said Zuhri told a group of journalists visiting the project on Sept. 18.
For a total cost of about Rp 14 trillion ($988.4 million), the new Kijing port is to have a container terminal with capacity of up to 2 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEU), much bigger than the Dwikora Port's capacity of 300,000 TEUs. The new Kijing Port would occupy an area of about 200 hectares, much bigger than Dwikora Port, which only sits on 10 ha.
The ongoing project is the initial part of the port development, which comprises the construction of a one-km-long jetty and container terminal with a capacity for 500,000 TEUs. The initial project covers an area of 52 ha. IPC plans also to build industrial zones near the port.
