Many pontoon dock items are porous
TARGETED started operating last Sunday (19/6), It turns out that the pontoon dock at Ketapang-Gilimanuk Harbor has never been operational. because of, dock rehabilitation process from capacity 7 tons to be 10 tons is still not completed.
This means that the target for operating the pontoon pier has been missed twice within the specified time. The first, The rehabilitation process was deliberately stopped due to a visit from the Minister of Transportation (Minister of Transportation) RI, Ignasius Jonan at ASDP Ketapang Harbor last Thursday (16/6).
Nah, The second time, the operational target was again missed because during the finishing process yesterday, many porous dock items were still found, mainly at ASDP Ketapang Port. ASDP Ketapang Public Relations, Sandhi Nugroho explained, The operation of the pontoon pier had to be postponed because the pier was still not ready.
The discovery of porous dock items is still being followed up by the ASDP Ketapang technical team so that it does not cause problems in the future. "It's better to postpone the surgery schedule, rather than being forced to operate but the dock is still not ready. Our engineering manager said that the rehabilitation process was delayed because there were porous dock items,he explained.
He added, The pier rehabilitation process is still continuing at ASDP Ketapang Port only. Because, The pontoon dock at Gilimanuk Harbor has been completed 100 percent and ready to be used for the process of loading and unloading vehicles onto the ship.
“Rehab continues to be accelerated so that it can be completed quickly. Gilimanuk is done, Only the one in Ketapang remains unfinished. We will try as soon as possible to serve the community. God willing, tomorrow (today) already in operation," he concluded.
Just know, The rehabilitation process for this pontoon pier has been carried out since date 12 last June. The rehabilitation process for the Ketapang–Gilimanuk pontoon pier is targeted for completion on the date 16 last June. In fact, So far, the pier rehabilitation process has not been completed because several porous pier items are still found.
With the pontoon pier not operating, automatically only three pier at Ketapang Port are operational, namely MB I pier, II and II. In addition to the pontoon dock which was rehabilitated from 7 tons of 10 ton, ASDP Ketapang has previously rehabilitated the MB I pier and MB II pier at Ketapang Harbor and Gilimanuk Harbor..
MB Pier which was previously at capacity 20 ton, now added to its ability to become 35 Ton. This pier rehabilitation project was carried out so that vehicles with heavier tonnage could have more options for crossing other than at LCM Ketapang Harbor..
With many crossing options for vehicles, It is expected that traffic jams during Eid homecoming and returning are predicted to increase 5 percent from last year can also be slightly resolved. (radar)
