Skip to main content

Trans-Sumatra costs reach $1.7 billion, according to Hutama Karya

The cost for completing the three toll road sections of the Trans-Sumatra project will be almost US$1.7 billion, according to a major Indonesian construction firm. Hutama Karya is working on the 140km stretch from Bakauheni-Terbangi Besar, the 28km Palembang-Simpang Indralya section and the 18km Medan-Binjai stretch, said the company’s managing director, Gusti Ngurah Putera The Trans-Sumatran Highway is the primary north-south road, running around 2,500km on the island of Sumatra. It connect the north
November 14, 2016 Read time: 1 min
The cost for completing the three toll road sections of the Trans-Sumatra project will be almost US$1.7 billion, according to a major Indonesian construction firm.

5206 Hutama Karya is working on the 140km stretch from Bakauheni-Terbangi Besar, the 28km Palembang-Simpang Indralya section and the 18km Medan-Binjai stretch, said the company’s managing director, Gusti Ngurah Putera

The Trans-Sumatran Highway is the primary north-south road, running around 2,500km on the island of Sumatra. It connect the north of the island in Banda Aceh to Bandar Lampung in the south, running through many major cities, including Medan and Padang.

Last December, World Highways reported that a loan of $91 million had been signed between Indonesian infrastructure financing company Sarana Multi Infrastrucktur (SMI) and Hutama Karya. The money for work on the 22km Palembang-Indrayala stretch of the Trans Sumatra.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Highway work boost in North Africa
    August 21, 2012
    North Africa is seeing construction business return - Mike Woof reports After a troubled period, stability looks to be returning to North African nations, which can only be good for the road construction sector. First Tunisia, then Egypt and finally Libya saw tumultuous revolts against the previous autocratic (and in one case at least, despotic) rulers. All three nations are now benefiting from a return to stability, with economic growth also improving once more.
  • Trans-Sahara Highway soon to connect Niger with Algeria
    December 4, 2014
    Construction work started in November on the last part of the Trans-Sahara Highway connecting the Algerian capital Algiers to the Nigerian capital and port Lagos.
  • Key toll road projects underway in Indonesia
    September 30, 2014
    Work is progressing on the second phase of a new tolled highway in Indonesia, with a consortium carrying out the construction of the connection between Kualanamu and Tebing Tinggi. The consortium comprises three state-owned construction firms, Pembangunan Perumahan (PP); Hutama Karya; Waskita Karya and toll road operator, Jasa Marga. Construction of the second phase of the project, the connection between Kualanamu Airport and Tebing Tinggi, is underway. In all the construction of the first and second phases
  • Russia to commission new Moscow-St Petersburg highway by 2020
    June 20, 2017
    Final delivery of the final stretch for Russia’s key highway project looks set to be delayed – Eugene Gerden writes. I now looks as if Russia’s most ambitious project in the field of road building in recent years, the building of a new high-speed road link between Moscow and St Petersburg, the country’s largest cities, will not be complete in time. The project was set up by the Russian government and several private investors. According to initial state plans, building of the new road should have been compl