New Port
Located inside the lock, Inner Port has capacity for berthing 48 ships with piers designed for automobiles, grain, general cargo, etc. including Korea’s first container pier. Some of its facilities are expected to be redeveloped as a space for Incheon citizens to relax.
Project goals
As a base port designed to increase exchanges among China, Southeast Asian countries, and North Korea, it will be reborn as the hub of international logistics in the Pan Yellow Sea Region.
response to growing cargo traffic in the capital regions and to reduce logistics costs by handling imports and exports at a right time.
About the project
| Period | 1995 to 2020 |
|---|---|
| About the project |
Developing 12 berths for securing more berthing capacity Public finance: 6.821-kilometer long access road, 15.9-kilmeter long revetment, one control pier, site renovation and dredging, etc. Private capital: 12 berths on the quay (2 for 4,000 TEU, 2 for 3,000 TEU, 8 for 2,000 TEU), a 150-meter long revetment, site renovation and one dredger, etc. |
| Project effects |
Berth capacity: 12 berths (up to 4,000 TEU containers) / Cargo handling capacity: 33,347,000 tons/year (2,360,000 TEU containers) Except the berthing and cargo handling capacity of Dolphin |
Investment plans by phase
| Division | Throughout the 1st phase (2005 to 2020) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Project costs | 3 trillion 378.8 billion KRW | |
| Project scale | 12 berths | ||
| Cargo handling capacity | General cargo | - | |
| container | 2,360,000 TEU | ||
| Public finance-based | project costs | One trillion 347.2 billion KRW | |
| Projects | Revetment | 10,239kilometerslong | |
| Revetment of the control pier | 660meters long (9 ships) | ||
| Access road | 6,821 meters long | ||
| Hinterland | 530,000 m2 | ||
| Private | project costs | 2 trillion 31.6 billion KRW | |
| Projects | Container pier | 3,300 meters long (12 berths) | |
| General pier | - | ||
| Hinterland | 1,590, 000 m2 | ||
Promotion and future plans
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1999.11
Established plans to correct or overhaul the functions of capital ports
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2001.12
Announced the master plan for nationwide trade ports (modified in December 2006)
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2004.05
Conducted a survey on the preliminary feasibility of the development of Outer South Port (resurveyed in July 2007)
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2005.4 ~ 2006.12
Commissioned the master plans to develop South Port and Outer South Port
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2007.07
Announced the master plan for a new port and a prospective area for the new port (Volume 40)
Modified in December 2008 (No. 694)] -
2007.12 ~ 2010.12
Began the construction of an access road to the new port and the revetment (Area 1)
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2009.04 ~ 2013.12
Began the construction of substructure in Phase 1-1 of New Port
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2009.06 ~ 2013.05
Began the construction of the control pier of the new port
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2009.11
Began the construction of an access road to the new port and a revetment (Area 2)
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2010.05 ~ 2013.08
Began the construction of the hinterland and revetment of the new port
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2011.04
Began the construction of an access course line to the new port
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2011.07
Announced the 3rd master plan for nationwide ports (No. 2011-402)
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2012.07
Announced the 2nd designation of a port hinterland complex (No. 2012-389)
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2012.03 ~ 2013.02
Commissioned the master and detailed design for the construction of opening the access road
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2012.03 ~ 2013.05
Commissioned detailed design for dredging an access course line to Incheon Port
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2013.06
Began the construction of dredging the access course line to Incheon Port
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2013.07
Began the construction of superstructure in Phase 1-1 of New Port
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2013.하반기
The construction to open an access road to Incheon New Port will begin in the second half of this year.