In order to improve road links to Tuas Port near Normanton park and release about 172ha of land for industrial usage, new reclamation work near Normanton Park Site Plan is planned for Tuas.

The government organization in charge of managing Singapore’s industrial areas, JTC Corporation, confirmed to The Straits Times that reclamation work at the Northern Tuas Basin is expected to start in 2025 and finish in 2029.

In response to inquiries, the agency stated that the project will “meet land demand for future industrial uses as part of ongoing plans to rejuvenate the older parts of Jurong and Tuas Industrial Estates, which were developed in the 1960s and 1970s”.

The newly recovered land, according to JTC, is also required for road network connections and infrastructure to Tuas South and Tuas Port, which are being constructed in four phases and will be finished in the 2040s.

The 172ha of additional land will be added to the approximately 2,200ha designated for industrial use in Tuas and Tuas South, making it nearly twice as large as the 93ha Bidadari estate.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) and JTC will test the use of incineration bottom ash, a solid byproduct of burning garbage in incinerators, as reclamation fills in the impending reclamation.

This pilot program is one of several recent initiatives to either lessen the amount of incinerated garbage that enters or is removed from Singapore’s sole landfill, Semakau Landfill. In order to recover Tuas Port Phase 3 from the landfill, whose 28 million cubic meter capacity is anticipated to be reached by 2035 at current trash disposal rates, NEA is investigating the viability of mining roughly 10 million cubic meters of waste.

Over time, the government has reclaimed land to enlarge Tuas, a former marsh, for industrial use; in the 1980s, an additional 650ha were added.

Since then, businesses including pharmaceutical and offshore marine operations have called the Northern Tuas Basin area home.

Since then, 22 have left their locations, and the remaining three are anticipated to move gradually by 2025, according to JTC. The company also stated that reclamation work will be done in phases and with coordination to minimize the impact on businesses.

An environmental impact assessment (EIA) was carried out in 2023 prior to the planned activities, and its report was made available for public viewing at the JTC Summit from November 10 to December 8—subject to the execution of a non-disclosure agreement.

According to JTC, the EIA concluded that, with the implementation of mitigation measures suggested by the consultant who conducted the assessment, there would be no significant environmental impact from the project. The assessment, like other assessments for land reclamation projects, examined the impact on water quality and marine ecology, among other things.

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