ASDP Ensures Traffic Continues to Flow to Gilimanuk Despite Heavy Congestion

Jakarta – PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) is ensuring vehicle traffic to Gilimanuk Port continues to move, despite heavy vehicle queues monitored during the 2026 Lebaran transport period.

Deputy Director General of ASDP, Yossianis Marciano explained that this congestion has been driven by increased public mobility as people attempt to cross earlier before temporary closure of the Gilimanuk–Ketapang and Padangbai–Lembar routes during Nyepi celebrations on 18–20 March 2026.

He stressed that the state enterprise is deploying all operational capacity to ease congestion and maintain ferry service flow.

“ASDP is undertaking various maximum efforts by optimising ships, berths and operational management to keep vehicle traffic moving. We understand that many service users are racing against time before port closure during Nyepi, so we have mobilised all resources to accelerate ferry services,” said Yossianis on Tuesday, 17 March 2026.

Beyond the high volume of vehicles heading to the port, the queue conditions are also influenced by traffic dynamics along routes leading to the Gilimanuk area, including public activity at various service points such as fuel stations and other travel support facilities.

Through various service acceleration measures, vehicle queues that previously reached approximately 36 kilometres have begun to gradually ease and are now monitored flowing densely with queue lengths of approximately 20 kilometres towards Gilimanuk Port.

ASDP Ketapang Branch General Manager Arief Eko stated that, working with partners in the field, various traffic engineering measures have also been implemented to help facilitate vehicle flow to the port.

“Small vehicles are also being directed to the Cargo Buffer Zone area, which is currently monitored as full, to reduce congestion on the main route to the port,” said Arief.

From an operational perspective, the Ketapang–Gilimanuk route is currently operating on an extremely dense operational pattern by deploying 34 ships to increase service capacity. ASDP is also applying the Arrival–Unloading–Departure (AUD) scheme at several berths, namely MB2, MB4, LCM, and Bulusan.

“A total of 24 ships are deployed for the AUD scheme, where ships arriving at Ketapang Port immediately unload cargo and promptly return to sea without loading new vehicles, thus ship turnaround becomes faster,” he said.