Port of Jakarta (Tanjung Priok Port)

Port of Jakarta

The Port of Jakarta also known as Tanjung Priok Port is the largest Indonesian seaport and one of the largest seaports in the Java Sea basin, with an annual traffic capacity of around 45 million tonnes of cargo and 4,000,000 TEU's.This port is located in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.
The port is also an important employer in the area, with more than 18,000 employees who provide services to more than 18,000 ships every year.
After the power of Tarumanagara declined, all of its many territories, including Sunda Pura, became part of the Kingdom of Sunda. The harbour area were renamed Sunda Kelapa as written in a Hindu monk's lontar manuscripts, which are now located at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University in England, and travel records by Prince Bujangga Manik. By the 14th century, Sunda Kelapa became a major trading port for the kingdom. The 1st European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived in 1513 when the Portuguese were looking for a route for spices, especially black pepper.
Jakarta's Container Port, now is known as Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) operated by the Hutchison Port Holdings and PT Pelindo II is the largest container terminal in Indonesia and the country's national hub port. In August 2004, the Indonesian Commercial Newsletter announced that the country would build a new port in Jakarta using Japanese technology. Admitting that Jakarta's traditional port, Tanjung Priok, hadn’t been improved for 150 years, the new Port of Jakarta (Djakarta) was needed for import and export traffic. At 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 of Jakarta has 20 terminals: general cargo, multipurpose terminal, scraps terminal, passenger terminal, dry bulk terminal, liquid bulk terminal, oil terminal, chemicals terminal and three container terminals, 76 berths, a quay length of 16,853 metres, a total storage area of 661,822 m2 and a storage capacity of 401,468 tonnes.
In 2007 the Port of Jakarta handled 41,980,914 tonnes of cargo and 3,689,783 TEU's making it the busiest cargo port in Indonesia and the largest container port in the country.

Related Sites for Port of Jakarta

• WPS - Port of Jakarta contact information - WPS - Home Page read Port of Jakarta
• Home | JICT Indonesia's Preferred Container Terminal read Port of Jakarta
• Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) read Port of Jakarta