Pelni Provides 3,100 Free Ship Tickets On Christmas And New Year's Holidays

President Director of PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia or PT Pelni (Persero) Tri Andayani. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia or PT Pelni (Persero) provides free sea boat tickets for the 2024 Christmas and 2026 New Year (Nataru) holidays. The quota provided reaches 3,100 tickets.

The Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 periods set by Pelni from D-14 or December 11, 2024 to D+14 or January 8, 2025.

President Director of Pelni Tri Andayani said 3,100 free tickets for this Pelni ship can be obtained on 13 ports for departure and destination.

The details are Batam-Belawan 700 pax, Manokwari-Sorong 200 pax, Sorong-Ambon 200 pax, Ende-Kupang 200 pax, Bitung-Sorong 200 pax, Timika-Tual 200x, and Tanjung Priok-Maumere 200 pax.

Then, Jayapura-Serii pax 200, Jayapura-Biak 200 pax, Makassar-Maumere 200 pax, Makassar-Balikpapan 200 pax, Jayapura-Nabire 200 pax and Ambon-Tual 200 pax.

"We gave free tickets during the Nataru period there were 3,100 tickets," he said at a press conference at the BUMN Ministry Office, Jakarta, Thursday, December 19.

You are his nickname saying Pelni operates 55 ships. Consisting of 25 passenger ships with 48,323 seats and a port of 72 passengers.

Then, you continued, 30 pioneer ships belonging to the Ministry of Transportation can carry 11,889 seats and oversee 236 ports to disadvantaged, frontier, outermost and border areas (3TP).

The total of these 55 ships as many as 60,212 seats for one departure, including the dispensation given by the Ministry of Transportation with an average of 150 percent of these 55 ships. There is also the availability of passenger ship tickets that we have prepared for Nataru this year as many as 547,549 tickets," he said.