High Public Interest, Pelni Asks For 150 Percent Passenger Transportation Dispensation From Capacity

President Director of PT Pelni Tri Andayani. (Photo: ANTARA)

PT Pelasero Nasional Indonesia (Persero) or Pelni asked the Ministry of Transportation to allow Pelni to load 150 percent ship exceeding the existing capacity.

President Director of PT Pelni Tri Andayani said that currently the public's interest in using sea transportation or ship owned is getting higher.

"Seeing also from the current trend throughout the year, we ask the Ministry of Transportation to be precise the passenger dispensation of 150 percent of the ship's passenger capacity. Because the number of requests or demand from the community is currently very large or high," he told reporters, in Jakarta, written Friday, August 2.

The woman who is familiarly called you said that until the first semester of 2024 the number of passengers that Pelni had served reached 2.6 million people. He is also optimistic that the number of Pelni passengers this year will reach more than 5 million people.

"I project that by the end of the year it could reach 5.4 to 5.5 million people with long holidays and Nataru," he said.

You said Pelni's own number of passengers before the COVID-19 pandemic was approximately 5.4 million in one year.

"Then we saw a sharp decline in 2020 and 2021, then it increased again as PPKM opened and at the end of 2023 we recorded 5.3 million passengers," he explained.

Furthermore, you convey, the increase in the number of passengers will boost the company's financial performance.

He said Pelni's profit had fallen to Rp30 billion and Rp40 billion in the pandemic era in 2021 to 2022.

Then, you continued, Pelni's profit again experienced a surge of up to Rp173 billion and Rp201 billion in 2022 and 2023.

The increase in the number of passengers is arguably a recipe for an increase in company profit. We are optimistic that profit will grow positively considering that until the first semester of 2024 it has reached Rp110 billion," he explained.