Sunday, 4 March 2012

gotravel JAKARTA


Port of Sunda Kelapa:Sunda Kelapa is the name of a harbor and surrounding places in Jakarta, Indonesia. This port is situated in the village Penjaringan, Penjaringan district, North Jakarta. This picture shows the Old Tower Supervisor (or Lighthouse), which is still standing in this areaSunda Kelapa is the name of a harbor and surrounding places in Jakarta, Indonesia. This port is situated in the village Penjaringan, Penjaringan district, North Jakarta.Although the present Sunda Kelapa is the name of one port in Jakarta, this area is very important because the villages around the port of Sunda Kelapa is the forerunner of the city is set on the anniversary date of June 22, 1527.
 At that time Kalapa, real name, is a port of the kingdom which had its capital at Pakuan Pajajaran (now Bogor) is captured by the troops and Cirebon Demak. Although the anniversary of the new city established in the 16th century, the history of Sunda Kelapa had begun much earlier, ie at the time of Pajajaran predecessor, namely the kingdom Tarumanagara. Tarumanagara kingdom was attacked and conquered by the Sumatran kingdom of Srivijaya.At this time the Port of Palm Sunda planned to be a tourist area because of high historic value. Currently the Port of Palm Sunda is one of the ports managed by PT Pelindo II is not certified to the International Ship and Port Security because of the nature of care services only for inter-island vessels.Currently the port of Sunda Kelapa has a land area of ​​760 hectares and the broad waters of the pool 16 470 hectares, consists of two major ports and harbors Kalibaru. The main harbor area has a length of 3250 meters and the vast pool of approximately 1,200 meters which can accommodate 70 motor sailboat. Kalibaru harbor over 750 meters in length with a land area of ​​343 399 square meters, the pool area 42128.74 square meters, and can accommodate approximately 65 boats between islands and has a stacking of goods covering 31 131 square meters.Economically, this port is very strategic because it close to commercial centers in Jakarta such as Glodok, Morning Market, Mango Two, and others. As inter-island port of Sunda Kelapa crowded ships measuring 175 BRT. The goods are transported in this port in addition to basic food and grocery items are textiles. For development outside Java, Sunda Kelapa also transported from building materials such as iron rods and others. This port is also the purpose of demolition of building materials from outside Java, such as sawn timber, rattan, kaoliang, copra, and so forth. Loading and unloading of goods at the port are still using traditional means. This port is also available at the warehouse facility landfilling, either regular or storage warehouse fire.In terms of history, this too is a port of one of the destinations for the Capital City. Not far from this harbor there is the Maritime Museum Indonesia featuring the world's maritime past and the heritage of the Dutch colonial past.To the south of the harbor, there is also Shipyard VOC and VOC buildings that have been renovated.

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