Increasing international trade has prompted Indonesia's state-owned port company, Pelabuhan Indonesia, to build a new container terminal in Jakarta, at a projected cost of 22 trillion rupiah (US$2.45 billion).
The project will expand Jakarta's main Tanjung Priok port, which Reuters reports is currently suffering from congestion.
"Tanjung Priok's volume at this moment is nearly congested, very high, so if we are not ready within two years, it will be a big problem," said Richard Lino, director of state port operator Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II to Reuters.
The first phase will have a capacity of 1.5 million TEU, while workers will reclaim land in Kali Baru Utara, north Jakarta, for the 2.7-square-kilometre terminal.