Sekupang Domestic Port Passenger Drops, Batam Ship Agent Screaming

Editor: Putri Larasati Anggiawan

TRIBUNBATAM.id, BATAM - The number of passengers at Sekupang Batam Domestic Port continues to decline.

Not only the number of visits, shipping ships at Sekupang Domestic Port must be reduced.

Ship agents who used to take 4 trips per day, now only one trip.

Head of Sekupang Domestic Port Management, Batam, Sohirnadi, Friday (25/09/2020) said the number of passenger visits decreased.

This was also carried out by reducing the number of voyages.

Not only Sohir, several shipping service providers acknowledged this.

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"The ship continues to operate, that's all. There are only a few passengers, only 60 people can depart from Sekupang," said a ticket sales clerk at the Dumai ship agent.

The decrease in the number of passengers has even had an impact on company revenues.

Operations Manager of Batam Jet ship, Jefri, said that since Covid-19 epidemic the condition of Batam Jet cruise passengers continued to decline.

In fact, he said that since the ship to Dumai closed operations until it was reopened, the number of passengers had not increased.

Monitored until Friday (25/09/2020) the number of voyages at Sekupang Domestic Ferry Terminal Port was running normally

Scheduled there are 15 ship voyages that will operate to various islands until this afternoon.

The ship docker at Sekupang Domestic Port, Boby, said ship shipping was running normally as usual, but today there was a decrease in the number of trips by ship agents.

"The number of ships sailing up and down, compared to previously reaching 30, today's sailing has decreased by only 15 ships," he said. (Tribunbatam.bereslumbantobing)

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