ASDP Urges Service Users To Buy Tickets According To Schedule For Traffic Smoothness

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JAKARTA - PT. River Transport Lake Ferry appealed to service users who will travel by ferry, especially on the Merak-Bakauheni route, to buy tickets according to schedule for smooth traffic on the joint holiday of the Ascension Day of Jesus, starting from Thursday to Sunday, May 12. ASDP Corporate Secretary Shelvy Arifin said, seeing the upward trend in passenger volume and vehicles considering the long holiday until the weekend, service users Those who will go to the port should first buy tickets through the application or official Ferizy partner. Port crossing service users in order to prepare for departure from a long time ago, make sure to have a ticket before leaving, and arrive at the port according to the schedule listed on the ticket for smooth traffic flow. Referring to Merak Branch data in March or the period before Eid, the average number of vehicles crossing during the weekday is 6,066 units per per day or a decrease of 2 percent compared to March 2023 of 6,164 per day. Meanwhile, during weekends, 7,257 units were recorded per day, an increase of 5 percent compared to the same period last year of 6,932 units per day. Meanwhile, the average number of vehicles crossing the 2024 Eid Transport during Tuesday_weekday was 11,992 per day, while at the time of _weekend_ was 14,511 per day. Overall on yesterday's Eid Transport service, we recorded out of a total of 8 The national track was observed to have increased by up to 5 percent, where the highest volume occurred on the main Merak -Bakauheni track. Learning from services during Eid yesterday to maintain installed capacity in order to serve all service users, by optimizing crossing facilities and infrastructure. "We ask that cooperation from the community is very important, for orderly tickets, and arrange departure schedules and returns," he said, quoted from ANTARA, Wednesday, May 8. The Merak-Bakauheni track has the potential to be crowded with vehicles following the access to the Trans Sumatra toll road and the growth of tourism areas starting from the South Lampung area where the Bakauheni Harbor City area is located. In addition, ASDP ensures that it continues to increase port and ship capacity at Merak Port, where the location of the parking is located at Merak Port. It is expanded so that the available capacity is 36,825 small vehicles. Likewise, Bakauheni Port which can accommodate up to 38,218 small vehicles. "ASDP ensures that the available ferry tickets have been adjusted to port and ship capacity. Thus, purchasing ferries for long days can help ASDP monitor the number of service users and vehicles entering ports according to the available port and ship capacity," Shelvy said. The inauguration of Ferizy's e-ticketing application, ASDP continues to boost ticket sales online, adding payment sales channels and sales partners officially. Purchase of ferry tickets can be done anywhere and anytime through the Ferizy Web Reservation, Mobile Apps Ferizy, and Ferizy Retail Outlets with a total of more than 1,000,000 sales channels, namely more than +5,000 Ferizy Retail Outlet partners nationwide and more than 1,600.000 active Web Reservation and/Mobile Application users Ferizy.

In addition, payments that were previously only possible in cash, are now easier through more than 120 payment options methods, namely Virtual Accounts, Retail Outlets, E-Wallet, Internet Banking, and Finpay Code. "Our next target is of course to integrate ferry services in all ASDP port and crossing work areas and implement add ons_and multimodal transportation integration services," said Shelvy.