Mamuju (ANTARA News) - West Sulawesi Governor H.Anwar Adnan Saleh confirmed that a Philippine investor would soon follow up a cooperation on building a container port in Belang-Belang, some 50 kilometers from capital Mamuju.
"The Philippines investor planned to visit Mamuju on June 21, 2011, to follow up on the result of a meeting in Manilai several months ago," Anwar Adnan Saleh said here Monday.
He said the construction of a container handling port in the Philippines will be partly be moved to Belang-Belang port, especially that this area has the natural potential of power supply to be built by a Chinese investor or the Kalla Grup.
He said the port III for handling containers will have the capacity of handling up to 30,000 tons ships.
"The Philippines investor is ready with 2.5 million US dollars to finance a feasibility study, among other things," he said, adding that the investor's seriously will boost economic development in the youngest province.
He said right now the Belang-Belang port has two quays respectively 15x62 m2 and 101x15,7 m2 with 138.000 m2 of accumulation field.
He said since Belang-Belang port quay started operations, several cargo vessels and palm oil carrying ships had come to Surabaya, the capital of E Java province each month.
H also said that the port has even startded manganese ore to China with the 5,000 DWT Golden Ever.
"Manganese ore exports had been stopped because of a procedural mistake in issuing a license by the central government. It was a mistake by the Mamuju regency administration but a miss-communication between the central government and regional administration prompting the temporarily stop the manganese ore exports," he said.
The Governor said Belang-Belang port has many more positive things compared to other areas including a more than 20 meters port.
"We hope the container port could be built not later than next year to boost the development of various sectors including reducing employment and poverty," he said. (H-NG/O001)
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