Asked to Postpone Small Ship Cruises

DUMAI - Extreme weather will still trigger the estimated wave height. To that end, the Kesyahbandaran and Class I Dumai Port Authority, providing early warning related to the bad weather. Against ships under the 5000 GT was asked to delay shipping.

"The weather was bad and volatile to be anticipated earlier by the users of port services," said Head of Safety Sailing, Class I Dumai Port Authority, Ivan Apriano Polin, Wednesday (16/1).

Citing the weather forecast of BMKG, he mentioned that bad weather caused by high winds, heavy rain and high waves in the waters of Sumatra and Riau Islands. Bad weather coupled with strong winds will cause high waves. Wave height of 3 to 4 feet in the waters of Riau and Jambi, the Pacific Islands, and the Strait Karimata Bengkulu waters as well as some parts of Lampung.

Because of the high waves, pihaknay asked the ships under 5 thousand GT for not sailing. "Early warning is in force against ships with a capacity of 5 thousand GT down and passenger and cargo ships. Suggested that we postpone the departure due to bad weather," he said.

In two days the ship was delaying some departures. As cargo ships exporting vegetables to Singapore and a number of countries other ships.

As for passenger ships, barges, Ro-Ro ferry and high speed fixed set sail issued permits only up to the territorial waters of which it is still safe Bengkalis. Read more. requested to the local port authorities to give permission after the study the weather and wave conditions was happening.