Bali to build new cruise ship port
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Putu Ardana, head of the Bali Transportation Office, said the project is expected to be completed in 2009, according to a Jakarta Post report.
He added that the port would be designed to accommodate large-scale single or double-deck cruise ships measuring 360 metres by 50 metres.
“The completion and operation of the port will constitute the first cruise ship port in Indonesia,” said Nengah Parwata, a transport official at Karangasem in Labuan Amuk where the port is being built.
Putu said the infrastructure currently being built included office buildings, a berth, terminal, health and security posts, immigration office and other supporting facilities.
According to Karangasem Tourism Office data, a number of cruise ships frequently made stops at Padang Bai Port, near Labuan Amuk Port, en route to Lembar Port in Lombok.
The Bali Tourism Alliance has, reportedly, hailed the project.
“We support it because it will diversify our tourist arrivals,” said the alliance’s coordinator Gusti Kade Sutawa.
Parwata added with the operation of the new port, the cruise ships would be able to drop off and pick up passengers from Bali. Travel agents would be able to arrange travel arrangements from the port as well, he was quoted saying.
Up until now, passengers who wanted to head to the eastern parts of Indonesia had to board cruise ships in other countries, like Singapore.
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