Pelni to open new route

Pelni to open new route

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara (JP): State-owned oceanliner PT
Pelayaran Indonesia (Pelni) will link Kupang, West Timor and
Darwin, Australia, next May with the 2,000-passenger ship
Lambelo.

Pelni's Kupang representative Mugni Giling said here early
this week the vessel was now being built in Germany.

Pelni orders most of its vessels from Germany's Jos L. Meyer
GmbH & Co., with Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau the usual credit
provider.

Giling said Pelni president Roesman Anwar would meet with
related officials in Darwin soon to discuss the new service.

He said the new service would boost tourist arrivals to
Kupang, particularly from New Zealand and Australia, and
hopefully increase business opportunities in Eastern Indonesia.
(yac/icn)