State-owned port operator Pelindo II, also known as the Indonesia Port Corporations (IPC), has plans to construct a new port in West Kalimantan entailing an investment of Rp 5.7 trillion. Kijing port will be spread across 200 hectares and will be integrated with a 5,000 hectare special economic zone (SEZ).
The port will be constructed in four phases and is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2019. For the first phase, which is expected to be completed within 18 months, the company will construct four terminals to serve dry and liquid bulk containers. The capacity of the container terminal is projected to be 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) annually. The liquid and dry bulk terminals will have a capacity of 8.3 million tonnes (mt) and 15 mt, respectively.