JAKARTA - PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) Ketapang Branch, Banyuwangi Regency, East Java, has prepared several special ferry boats to load two-wheeled vehicles as the number of motorcyclists on the H+7 Lebaran 2026 reverse flow increases.
"Today, there is a very high spike in motorcyclists, therefore we are making efforts, namely maximizing several ferry boats to fully load motorcyclists crossing from Ketapang to Gilimanuk," Deputy President Director of PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) Yossianis Marciano quoted Antara.
He said, from the data of the 2026 Lebaran Transportation Post Ketapang Port on Sunday in 12 hours (from 00.00-12.00 WIB), motorcycle travelers who have crossed from Ketapang to Gilimanuk were recorded as many as 3,438 units, private cars 2,204 units, trucks 667 units, buses 272 units, and a total of 22,804 passengers.
According to Yossi, motorcyclists are the top priority during the Lebaran return, and the second priority is passenger buses, while the third priority is four-wheeled vehicles (private cars).
Motorbikes and passenger buses as well as private cars are the main priorities during the Lebaran return flow, he said, becoming ASDP's strategy to break down queues in parking areas and port docks as well as on the arterial roads in front of the port entrance.
"We continue to try to sort out the vehicle queue, and continue to prioritize passenger vehicles, motorcycles including passenger buses so that they can arrive at the port and cross to the island of Bali," he said.
Yossi explained that the queue of logistics trucks that had occurred since Sunday morning had been broken down, and the queue was a process of delaying truck vehicles in the buffer zone.
"You can see together at the busy port, but outside the port there are truck queues. because the delaying system process is according to the plan that we have prepared earlier. So, this delay system is for trucks, but for passenger vehicles we actually accelerate loading and entering the port," he said.
"The queue in the afternoon is still happening again, but it's not so long, which previously reached 4 kilometers, now it has been broken down and has decreased to about 2 kilometers," said Yossi.
He asked the truck driver to be patient and because ASDP has provided a buffer zone for truck vehicles to stop for a moment.
"Until passengers or motorcyclists and private cars can be served first, so that later we will do it simultaneously for loading trucks," he said.
ASDP is implementing a very dense scenario by operating 32 units of ships on the Ketapang (Banyuwangi) - Gilimanuk (Bali) route at the peak of the H+7 Lebaran 2026 return flow.
Of the 32 ferry boats operating at the peak of the return flow today, 18 ship fleets have been applied to the arrival and unloading scheme or TBB to disperse the density of four-wheeled vehicles (private cars) and motorcycles including logistics trucks.
The pier that operates with the TBB pattern is the MB-IV Pier, there are four units of ships, in LCM 11 units, while at the Bulusan Pier there are three units of ferry ships.
From observation, until Sunday afternoon, private car travelers, passenger buses and thousands of motorcycle travelers continued to arrive at Ketapang Port to cross to Gilimanuk Port, Bali.
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