Four Hollow Parking Pockets
KALIPURO – After being paused for approx 30 hours to honor the yepi Hari Raya commemoration in Bali, Shipping services in the Bali Strait are finally operating again. The first departure schedule at the Ports of Ketapang and Gilimanuk started this morning at 05.00 WITA or hit 04.00 WIB.
Monitoring of Jawa Pos Radar Banyuwangi yesterday afternoon, as long as the port is closed there is no significant buildup, both passengers and vehicles in the port. There are only a few trucks and buses that appear to have been lining up at the front to wait for the port opening schedule this morning.
The four parking pockets provided to anticipate the surge in vehicles when the port was closed yesterday afternoon and evening also looked completely empty. It seems that the motorcyclists and drivers have memorized the Nyepi moment like this.
It's possible that drivers are better off waiting at home and not going to work than having to queue around the port. If in the afternoon the atmosphere of the harbor is empty, this is the opposite at night. Looks like a small vehicle, Many trucks and motorbikes are starting to flow towards Ketapang Harbor to go to Bali Island.
The arrival of the motorists to the port early is done so as not to avoid traffic jams that could occur before the opening of the port. Meanwhile, Ahead of the opening of the Ketapang port to Gilimanuk yesterday, the joint TNI/Polri officers and other agencies also seemed to be still on standby inside and outside the port..
Especially for personnel from the Sabhara and Satlantas Polres Banyuwangi on full alert in front of the port entrance to check letters and the contents of vehicles who chose to queue at the port when the shipping lane was still closed yesterday..
Even though the port has been reopened since this time, but as much 404 joint officers remain on standby until Friday (31/3), coming. This is done so that the security and smoothness of traffic on the road to Ketapang Port after it is closed will really remain conducive and there will be no problems. “Troops and vehicles remain on standby to help smooth traffic from Bali to Java or vice versa,"said the Deputy Chief of the Banyuwangi Police, Police Commissioner Muhammad Yusuf Usman.
As previously reported, General Manager (GM) PT. Indonesia Ferry (Persero) ASDP Ketapang, M. Yusuf Hadi said Ketapang Port will be closed from 23.00 WIB Tuesday (27/3). Meanwhile, Gilimanuk Port is known to have only started to close since 05.30 WITA, Wednesday (28/3), then.
After Nyepi Day is over, the crossing is reopening. On schedule, the Ketapang and Gilimanuk Port crossings will reopen at 04.00 WIB or 05.00 WITA this morning. "The departure of the first ship that wants to cross the Bali Strait will be adjusted in time". Exist 42 our ships are on standby at the MB and LCM docks,"explained M. Yusuf Hadi. (radar)
