The dimensions of the triple bottom-line approach to sustainable devel opment contain inherent con icting goals in implementation. In cases of urban development around the world, this is exemplary for settings in major port cities. Here, mostly economically oriented infrastructure requirements of the ports meet more comprehensive concerns of sustainable urban development. There are inco herent governance systems: Ports are often involved in higher-level national plan ning hierarchies, while urban development is predominantly locally controlled. This is also the case in Jakarta Megapolitan with Tanjung Priok Port, Indonesia, the most prominent and still expanding national seaport. The port expansion is also aimed to be a signi cant hub in one of the world’s maritime axes, which refers to vast urban growth. However, the entire urban economic effects are uncertain, for example, con cerning urban diseconomies of scale or rebound effects, such as traf c congestion,