page_title: Sawit Seberang
section_title: Infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Sawit Seberang / Infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Sawit Seberang, 31.07.2008
context_page_description: Sawit Seberang - also referred to as Sawit Sebrang - is the name of a district in Langkat Regency, the northernmost regency of North Sumatra.
context_section_description: The factory is located near the north-east border of the village Sawit Seberang, north of Medan, about 30 km northwest of the town Stabat - nowadays the seat of Langkat - and north of the city Binjai, formerly also written as Bindjai. At present it is one of more than two dozens locations of the PT. Perkebunan Nusantara II company. PTPN II was formed in March 1996 and is congregated of agriculture industry enterprises, which produce palm oil, sugar, rubber and tobacco on an area of 117.169,47 ha in North Sumatra. The headquarter is in Tanjung Morawa about 10 km south of Medan, located on the main road to Tebing Tinggi.
  During the colonial era the plantations of Sawit Seberang expanded until the fields near Gohor Lama, about 13 km towards south-east direction. Dates of the opening of the factory and the construction of the railway are not known so far. The gauge of the plantation railway was (700 mm).
  Railway transport of the palm fruits from the plantation to the factory was abandoned in the early 2010s. Meanwhile, the tracks are lifted. One of the last active locomotives was still parked besides the former tracks in 2012.
caption: Sawit Seberang, loading, 31.07.2008
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