Pelindo Earmarks Rp1t to Expand Cibitung Container Terminal
26 January 2015 19:34 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Bandung – State-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II is planning to expand the capacity of Cibitung container terminal in Bekasi to three million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) by mid-2015. Pelindo II president director Richard Joost Lino said the company had earmarked Rp1 trillion (US$83.3 million) for the project.
Lino said the funds would be spent on building the port’s infrastructure and improving the water canal passed by barges carrying containers from Cibitung to Tanjung Priok.
“The canal is available, but it’s only used to control flooding,” Richard said in Bandung on Monday, January 26, 2015.
According to Lino, his company will improve Cibitung-Bekasi-Laut (CBL) canal so that it can accomodate a barge with a capacity 150 containers, or equal to a three-kilometer line of container trucks. He estimated that the 50-meter wide canal could be passed by barges with a total capacity of 10 million containers.
“We will expand [the cannal] to 100-meter wide,” he said.
AHMAD FIKRI