Singapore Start to Build Tuas Megaport, Become The Largest Sophisticated Container Port in the World

TRIBUNBATAM.id, BATAM -  Singapore continues to establish itself as the world's largest transhipment and container port.

This was marked by the construction of the Tuas Megaport, which has a capacity twice the current port capacity of 36 TEUs (equivalent to a 20 feet container).

"The Tuas Megaport is designed to handle 65 million TEUs, but I believe PSA can manage a little more than that if we work hard," Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at the groundbreaking of the Tuas megaport construction, Thursday (10/10/2019 ), as reported by TribunBatam.id from Channel News Asia. 

If it operates in 2040, Tuas Megaport will become the newest container port, and this will become the largest fully automatic port in the world. 

This Megaport capacity will replace the various facilities in several ports in Singapore, namely Tanjong Pagar, Pasir Panjang, Keppel, and Brani Island.

Among the innovations that will be displayed by Tuas Megaport is a fleet of vehicles without a driver and is fully electrically driven to transport the containers between docks and the terminals. 

Currently the technology is being tested at the Pasir Panjang terminal, and this transport vehicle has a carbon footprint 25 percent smaller than the conventional vehicles. 

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The laying of the first stone was marked by the ignition of the torch symbolizing of the development of the PSA, which was moved from the Tanjong Pagar terminal to the Keppel and Brani terminals.

The torch was then transported by the prime mover to Pasir Panjang, before being taken to the Tuas port with a fleet of tugs and PSA Marine ship. 

The first two piers from the Tuas port are expected to start operating in 2021.

The first phase of construction will cost around $ 2.42 billion in Singapore or around IDR 242 trillion with 21 deep-sea docks, which will be able to handle around 20 million TEUs of cargo each year when fully operational in 2027. (*) 

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