Pelni Prepares 66,000 Seats For Christmas And New Year's Transportation Passengers 2024

President Director of Pelni Tri Andayani. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia or PT Pelni (Persero) operates 68 ships with the availability of 66,810 seats for the Christmas 2023 and New Year 2024 transportation periods.

President Director of Pelni Tri Andayani detailed that this number consisted of 26 passenger ships with 50,832 seats and 42 pioneer ships with 15,978 seats operating in the Nataru transportation period on December 11, 2023-8 January 2024.

"The total operation of the Pelni fleet on Christmas-Year 2023/2024 is 68 ships with 66,810 seat availability one departure," Tri said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, December 4.

His party, I Tri, has prepared strategic steps to prepare for the new Christmas holidays this time, namely ensuring the readiness of the fleet through ramp checks, monitoring the availability of fuel, ensuring that all ships operate during the peak season period and no one carry out docking, as well as ensuring that all ships are fit into the sea and feasible for operation.

Pelni also rerouted ships to accommodate the surge in passengers on certain sections and adjusted schedules to accommodate ship arrivals in certain areas.

In addition, monitoring is also carried out through coordination posts or posts in all Pelni branches with agencies related to the head office post and the Ministry of Transportation post.

"Essages for ship tickets have started on D-35 or November 17, 2023 through official websites, travel agents, online channels, contact centers and mini markets," he also said.

Tri explained that the number of passengers during the Christmas New Year 2022/2023 period reached 431,008 passengers with a peak season dispensation an average of 47 percent.

"However, on Christmas-New Year 2023/2024, we project to increase by 17 percent to 598,276 passengers with a peak season dispensation given by the Ministry of Transportation also increasing to 52 percent," he said again.

The peak of this new Christmas homecoming flow is predicted to occur on December 22, 2023 or D-3 and the peak of backflow on D+10 or January 4, 2024.

Tri revealed that new Christmas sea transportation was spread across three areas, namely the west with approximately 25 percent of passengers, in the central region approximately 35 percent and in the eastern region approximately 40 percent.

There are five most populous departure ports, namely Makassar, Batam, Ambon, Jayapura and Tanjung Priok ports.

Meanwhile, the most populous arrivals are Makassar, Ambon, Belawan, Surabaya, and Batam ports.

Pelni also adjusted the operation of passenger ships for the Christmas-New Year 2023/2024 transportation period, there were additional routes on 12 ships and additional frequencies on 3 ships and 2 additional bridge ships.

"Regarding pioneer ships, for these new years there is no reroute with distribution in the western region of 43 percent, the central region 29 percent and in the eastern region 28 percent," said Tri.