D-1 Lebaran, Nearly 400 Thousand Pelni Ship Tickets Sold Out

PT Pelni (Persero) has sold 399,806 tickets to D-1 Eid Al-Fitr 1445 H (photo: dock. plenni)

JAKARTA - PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia or PT Pelni (Persero) is recorded to have sold a total of 399,806 tickets to D-1 Eid Al-Fitr 1445 H, Tuesday 9 April.

Head of the Pelnim Company Secretariat=, Evan Eryanto, said the number consisted of 293,233 tickets for the Eid homecoming flow on March 26 - April 11 and 106,573 tickets had been sold for Eid backflow on April 12 - April 26.

He detailed that a total of 364,556 tickets had been sold to passenger ships and 35,250 tickets with pioneer ships. "Prospective passengers can check the availability of ship tickets through the Pelni Mobile Website Pelni.co.id application or Pelni 162 call center," said Evan in a statement to the media, Tuesday, April 9.

On the same occasion, Evan also appealed to prospective passengers to buy boat tickets through official channels such as the Pelni Mobile application, webinite pelni.co.id, call center Pelni 162, branch office counters and partners who have collaborated with Pelni.

"Pelni has also added ticket sales channels, namely through Mandiri Livin' Sukha and BCA Mobile," explained Evan.

Meanwhile, during this year's Eid homecoming period, company data showed that there were 5 of the most crowded sections including the Batam - Belawan section with 15,663 passengers, Belawan - Batam with 13,288 passengers, Kumai - Semarang 11,718 passengers, Balikpapan - Surabaya 10,588 passengers, and Makassar - Surabaya 9,154 passengers.

The company also recorded the 5 most populous departure ports for this year's homecoming period, namely Makassar as many as 33,119 passengers, Balikpapan 28,044 passengers, Ambon 24,343 passengers, Batam 22,735 passengers and Tanjung Priok 18,992 passengers.