Tarahan
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 33 ′ S , 105 ° 22 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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Geographical unit |
Sumatera | ||
| province | Lampung | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-LA | ||
| Kabupaten | Lampung Selatan | ||
Tarahan is a port in Sumatra / Indonesia in the southern province of Lampung . Tarahan was created to ship the coal mined by the Indonesian state company PT Bukit Asam on a large scale at Tanjung Enim from the 1980s onwards . The coal goes mainly to Merak on Java, where the Suralaya power station for coal-based electricity generation is located, with a capacity of 3,400 MW, and to China, India and Japan.
Tarahan is connected to the opencast mine near Tanjung Enim by a railway line, which was repaired in the 1980s with funds from the World Bank by the French company Alstom . The port of Tarahan can be called by ships up to 60,000 GRT.
The transport capacity of the existing railway line, which originates from the Dutch colonial era, is 15 million tons per year. In 2012 a contract was signed to build a new railway line. With logistical, technological and financial help from China, a railway line is being planned with a capacity of 25 million tons per year. a. and will connect the opencast mine with a second port to be built in the province of Lampung on the Sunda Strait .
The PT Bukit Asam Transpacific Railway (BATR) has commissioned the construction of 307 km of rail kilometers. The Bukit Asam Transpacific Railway is majority owned by the Indonesian Rajawali group. Rajawali is owned by Peter Sondakh.
The project has an investment volume of 1.8 billion USD for the construction phase. A share of USD 1.3 billion is being financed by a Chinese banking consortium, the rest of USD 500 million by the Bukit Asam Transpacific Railway (BATR).