REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The first stage of New Priok Port construction will be conducted in July 2012 after the documents are agreed. The agreement is predictably released in May 20.

Indonesian Port Corporation (IPC) submitted the documents to build and operate New Priok Port on April 20, 2012 and it has received the copy of Presidential Regulation Number 36/2012 signed by the President on April 5.

“We have to complete the documents to start the project. At least it was released a month before last Friday (April 20 -Ed),” the IPC President Director, Richard Joost Lino, said on Monday.

The construction of the ground breaking will mark the first stage. The first stage, designed to have 20-meter depth and 300-meter two-way traffic, will include the construction of three terminal for container and two fuel berths.