City Government Lifts Shipwrecks In Kendari Bay

Heavy equipment is operated to lift the wreck of an abandoned ship in Kendari Bay. (ANTARA/HO Kendari City Government)

KENDARI - Kendari City Government, Southeast Sulawesi, lifted the carcasses of a ship in Kendari Bay in the West Kendari District.

According to the Head of the Kendari City Fisheries Service, Imran Ismail, the effort to remove ship carcasses in Kendari Bay involved the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), the Civil Service Police Unit, the Fire Department, the Public Works and Public Housing Service, the Transportation Service, and the West Kendari District Government.

About 150 personnel and one heavy equipment were deployed to get rid of the wrecks of the ship in Kendari Bay.

"There are approximately 12 ships actually along Kendari Beachini that we will get rid of gradually," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, January 19.

Initially, the Fisheries Service deployed a number of employees to dismantle abandoned ships in Kendari Bay manually using hammers and crowbars. However, these efforts are not optimal.

Regional apparatus organizations within the Kendari City Government were then mobilized to work together to dismantle and lift ships that were abandoned in Kendari Bay.

The Kendari City Fisheries Service targets the appointment of nine of the 12 abandoned ships in Kendari Bay to be completed within two weeks.

Two of the abandoned ships in Kendari Bay will be repaired by their owners.

The Kendari City Fisheries Service has given the ship's owner a two-week deadline to complete repairs. If after the ship's deadline is not repaired, the service will destroy it.