Pelni timetable and KM.Tatamailau in Banda sea - 11

Jadwal Keberangkatan Kapal Pelni Tatamailau Juni, Juli, Agustus 2016

Pelabuhan Berangkat	Pelabuhan Tiba	Jadwal Berangkat	Jadwal Tiba
SORONG	FAK-FAK	03-07-2016 | 14:00	04-07-2016 | 04:00
FAK-FAK	KAIMANA	04-07-2016 | 05:00	04-07-2016 | 18:00
KAIMANA	TIMIKA	04-07-2016 | 19:00	05-07-2016 | 13:00
TIMIKA	AGATS	05-07-2016 | 14:00	06-07-2016 | 03:00
AGATS	MERAUKE	06-07-2016 | 04:00	07-07-2016 | 18:00
MERAUKE	AGATS	08-07-2016 | 06:00	09-07-2016 | 14:00
AGATS	TIMIKA	09-07-2016 | 15:00	10-07-2016 | 00:30
TIMIKA	KAIMANA	10-07-2016 | 01:00	10-07-2016 | 20:00
KAIMANA	FAK-FAK	10-07-2016 | 21:00	11-07-2016 | 09:00
FAK-FAK	SORONG	11-07-2016 | 11:00	12-07-2016 | 00:01
SORONG	MOROTAI	12-07-2016 | 02:00	13-07-2016 | 04:00
MOROTAI	BITUNG	13-07-2016 | 05:00	13-07-2016 | 23:00

 

Update : 14 Juni 2016

Above is an extract from the Pelni timetable for KM.Tatamailau for July 2016. I have colour highlighted here and there for ease of reading..

Very important thing to remember is that timetables like above can be had by interrogating the ship name, albeit in Indonesian language only.

Anyway, we can learn a few things from above timetable by intelligent guessing.

1. The ship's starting point is Sorong (or Bitung).

2. It no longer does the looping..

3. There is an additon of Morotai. I have heared of "Morotai", and the following map is showing where this

addition is located.          

What this means is that the ship, upon leaving Soron makes this additional stop at Morotai before returning (? ) to Bitung. My instinctive question here is "Which port is the starting point?". I do not know the answer.

However, the biggest discovery is that this ship no longer does the looping. It simply goes back and forth along the western coast of PNG. So, I will need to look at all the ships below to find out what they do.

Sangiang, Pangrango, Ciremai, Gunung Dempo, Dobonsolo, Umsini, Lambelu, Binalya, Doro Londa, Wilis, Bukit Siguntang, Kerinci, Leuser, Kelud, Bukit Raya, Labobar, and Lawit

However, following Pelni URL makes life easier. It does give us the list of all the routes.

http://harga-promo.net/jadwal-kapal-pelni/jadwal-kapal-pelni-bukit-raya-terbaru-2016.html

You need to make the right guesses, though, because it is all in Indonesia language. I wish they had an English version, if not in Japanese!

One of these may or may not  do the looping I want. I have little time left before setting out for General Santos on Monday, so my next article may well be delayed, or even stopped until early August if internet connections are bad in the Phyls as it was in Bohol in April.