News / Maersk Line signs up for ambitious plan to develop Indonesian port of Bitung

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While much of Indonesia’s recent maritime development has been focused on West Java, where Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port is undergoing a $4.66bn expansion, plans are also in motion to open up trade routes across its vast eastern archipelagos.

Bitung Port in Sulawesi, east Indonesia, has been earmarked for an economic and maritime transformation which could ease the burden of the high logistics costs that plague a country made up of more 14,000 islands.

Maersk Line has been quick to recognise the potential ...