Passengers Are Predicted To Increase In Lebaran Homecoming, KM Kelud Travel In Medan To 6 Times

KM Kelud (ANTARA)

PT Pelni Medan stated that the travel frequency of the KM Kelud ship was added during the Lebaran sea transportation period, 7 April-8 May 2023 to 6 times in one month. "We alerted one ship, namely KM Kelud, with the addition of travel frequency," said Head of Branch of PT Pelni Medan Biwa Abi Laksana to ANTARA at Bandar Deli Passenger Terminal, Belawan Port, Medan, Saturday, April 8. Biwa continued, usually, ship departures from Medan only once a week or four times a month. However, specifically during the Eid period, KM Kelud's departure from Medan increased to at least six times a month. In the range of 7 April-8 May 2023, there were nine times KM Kelud departures from Belawan with details six times in the range of 8-30 April 2023 and three times on 1-7 May 2023. It was outside departure on April 2 as well as three times sailing on 13-22 March 2023 from Belawan.KM Kelud was aimed at Belawan-Tanjung Balai Karimun-Batam-Tanjung Priok, then Belawan-Batam-Tanjung Priok and Belawan-Batam went home. To assist the operation of KM Kelud, PT Pelni Medan also prepared one other ship, namely KM Doriolonda which departed on April 19, 2023 with the destination of Belawan-Batam-Kijang. "KM Doronda is only operated on homecoming flows. For backflow, only KM Kelud is traveling," said Biwa. Biwa explained, currently the number of passengers sailing from Belawan Port is not too much.

On the first day of departure for the Eid al-Fitr period, Saturday, April 8, there were only 789 passengers using the KM Kelud ship to Batam. This number is less than the passengers who disembarked at Belawan Harbor from Batam, also on Saturday, April 8, which is 1,383 people. However, the total has not yet reached the maximum capacity that KM Kelud can carry, which is around 2,600 passengers.