Tanjung Priok Port
| Port of Tanjung Priok | |
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Aerial view
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| Location | |
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| Location | Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta |
| Coordinates | 6°06′14″S 106°53′11″E / 6.104°S 106.8865°ECoordinates: 6°06′14″S 106°53′11″E / 6.104°S 106.8865°E |
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| Owned by | PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II |
| Type of harbor | Natural |
| Size of harbor | 604 ha (6.04 sq km) |
| Land area | 424 ha (4.24 sq km) |
| Size | 1,028 ha (10.28 sq km) |
| Available berths | 76 |
| Statistics | |
| Annual container volume | 6.59 million TEU's (2013) |
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The Port of Tanjung Priok is the busiest and most advanced Indonesian seaport, handling more than 50% of Indonesia's trans-shipment cargo traffic. The port is located at Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, which is operated by Indonesian state owned PT Pelindo II. Container terminal of the port is known as Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT), which is operated by the Hutchison Port Holdings and Pelindo II is the largest container terminal in Indonesia and the country's national hub port. In April 2011, JICT received an Asian Freight and Supply Chain Award (AFSCA) as the best service quality and technology innovation of terminal with less than 4 million twenty-foot equivalent units handling capacity.
The port was among the least efficient in all Southeast Asia, with turn-around times 6 times that of Singapore, and severely congested due to slow customs handling, as well as limited port capacity. In regard to the port capacity, two-phase "New Priok" extension project is currently ongoing,which is expected to be fully operational in 2023. When fully operational this New Priok Port (which is also known as Kalibaru Port) will increase annual capacity of Tanjung Priok more than triple. Annual capacity will increase from five million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of containers to 18 million TEU and the port will be able to facilitate triple-E class container ships (with an 18,000 TEU capacity) in a 300 meters wide two-way sea lane. First phase of the project has completed in 2016, which has helped to improve the performance of the port. Dwelling time in the port which was once 7 days, now reduced to almost 3 days. The port now can accommodate container ships with capacity up to 14,000 TEUs. In 2016, the port loaded and unloaded 6.2 million TEUs of cargo, out of a total capacity of about 8 million TEUs.
The earliest record mentioning this area as a capital city can be traced to the Indianized kingdom of Tarumanagara as early as the fourth century. In AD 39, King Purnawarman established Sunda Pura as a new capital city for the kingdom, located at the northern coast of Java. Purnawarman left seven memorial stones with inscriptions bearing his name spread across the area, including the present-day Banten and West Java provinces. The Tugu Inscription is considered the oldest of all of them.
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