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Jadwal Kapal Pelni AWU dan Harga Tiket Terbaru 2016

MAY 24, 2016 / 47 COMMENTS / 87302 VIEWS

Above is just an example from the newly discovered Pelni URL.

It continues to introduce this ship (Awu) as follows, followed by a ports of call list.

Jadwal Keberangkatan Kapal Pelni Awu Terbaru Tahun 2016 – KM. AWU yang merupakan salah satu nama kapal pelni, mungkin namanya berasal dari nama salah satu gunung yang ada di Indonesia. Penamaan beberapa kapal pelni bila dilihat secara seksama maka kebanyakan akan mengambil dari nama bukit atau gunung yang ada di wilayah Indonesia. KM. AWU ini mungkin diambil dari nama gunung berapi yang terletak di Pulau Sangihe, Kepulauan Sangihe yaitu Gunung AWU. Kepulauan Sangihe ini terletak di Provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Ketinggian gunung ini mencapai 1.320 meter (4.331 kaki). Letak Gunung AWU ini berada pada titik koordinat 3°40’ LU 125°30 BT. Secara geologi gunung AWU ini bertipe Stratovolcano dan umur batuannya mencapai 100.000 tahun. Gunung AWU adalah gunung berapi terbesar dalam rantai Sangihe. Erupsi gunung berapi ini terjadi pada tahun 1711, 1812, 1856, 1892 dan 1966 dengan aliran piroklastik dan lahar yang merusak yang telah mengakibatkan 8000 orang tewas akibat erupsi dari gunung ini. Letusan terakhir dari Gunung AWU ini terjadi pada Juni – Agustus tahun 2004.

Jadwal Kapal Pelni AWU 2016 – Bila anda berniat memakai jasa transportasi yang disediakan oleh PT Pelni maka anda bisa memilih kelas sesuai dengan kemampuan kantong anda, karena disini ada berbagai kelas yang disediakan dari kelas ekonomi yang duduk lesehan dibawah atau dalam bangsal-bangsal sampai kelas dengan kamar yang hanya diisi 2 orang penumpang saja dengan fasilitas kamar mandi/closet sendiri, lemari, televisi, 2 tempat tidur. Bila anda ingin menggunakan kapal pelni, maka bagi kalangan tertentu, PT pelni memberikan diskon khusus, yaitu

Above is only part of what they talk about this particular ship "Awu". Pity, it is all in Indonesian., because I see from above that Pelni is serious about selling their services and corporate images, too. The first picture is perhaps related to past volcanic erruptions, by the look of the years in the article.

My take is that they are probably trying to encurage passengers (including overseas tourists, hopefully) to visit these places on the way, not just being content with being driven from one port to the next in a hurry. And, that is good, very good indeed in many ways.

I really think that they should translate this web site into Japanese to encourage an influx of more Japanese tourists into the regions distant from usual areas for tourism.

Ports of call for this ship are listed below. (only a tiny portion and heavily edited by me for simplicity and clarity)

SURABAYA/BENOA (21-05-2016 | 13:00)  -> DENPASAR (22-05-2016 | 16:00)
BENOA/DENPASAR (22-05-2016 | 19:00)  -> BIMA (23-05-2016 | 14:00)
BIMA (23-05-2016 | 15:00)                          -> WAINGAPU (24-05-2016 | 06:00)
WAINGAPU (24-05-2016 | 10:00)               -> ENDE (24-05-2016 | 21:00) 

I pride myself on this new discovery I made almost by accident, simply because up until now people like me have been struggling to find the right Pelni website. I am convinced that this is what we have been looking for in such a long time.

OK, these are only pre-planned operational schedules and there will be delays in reality, no doubt. However, we can now look at the latest planned status of Pelni operations and with any luck we may even be able to know up to date arrival/departure timings if Pelni is quick enough in updating. Who knows?

Nice thing about this discovery is that we no longer need to do guessing games like before, trying to find each ship's location by trial and error. What follows is the old version of Pelni web site.

https://www.pelni.co.id/

In fact, if we use above older (?) web site by guessing in the right way and make some hits by sheer accident we may even be able to extrapolate from there, by inserting that information obtained (from the old web site) into the planned table of schedule on this new Pelni web site (URL is given below).

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

I have not yet examined in great details this newly discovered Pelni web site. However, the fact that we can at least find, albeit only by guessing work, the latest operational details of Pelni shipping service is of  great advantage to many of us, potentially interested in the far corners of Indonesia.

Indonesia clearly will have much to gain from translating these pages of their web site into Japanese.

It is not such a difficult job to do. In fact, I will be prepared to translate this web site into Japanese, completely free of charge if Pelni can assign somebody Indonesian and conversant in Japanese(or English)  to work with me.

How does that strike to you?, Pelni. He/she does not need to be resident in Japan as we can easily communicate over the net. I remain interested.