Pac Acrux The Biggest Ship Bound To Port Of Palembang

Pac Acrux

We know that Port of Palembang are one of biggest River port in Indonesia was with traffic of ship that never silent.

Port of Palembang distance around 55 miles or 101 kilometres from estuary of Musi river. By distance that length accompanied path devious river with depth of groove variation referred have separate characteristic and it is of course limit level of ship that will bound to Port of Palembang. This condition of course differs from ports that reside in free waterfront.

Nevertheless to give maximal service, Port of Palembang in collaboration with service user will fixed deliver ships bound to Port of Palembang more amount of.

One of compromy form are referred is bounding the biggest ship halting-place in Port of Palembang that is Pac Acrux, Pac Antares, Pac Alnath, Pac Alkaid. The ship owned by Acrux Maritime Limited that in Group Legal SG House 41 Tower Hill Londons, EC3N4SG United Kingdom and operated by Paccship (UK) addressed at 19 Buckingham Gates, 4th Floor London SW1E6LB United Kingdom are referred as in at longest routine at least three weeks once by rotation enter Port of Palembang.

Pac Acrux ship that built in Zhejiang Shipyard, China in May 2003 that registered at Singapore with with length LOA 178.8 m gross tonage GT 20.471 with dead weight DWT as 27.419,68 MTs with maximum draft of 10.4 M. Whereas to step into Port of Palembang Pac Acrux enters Pelabuhan Palembang with draft of maximum 5.4m and after dredge on December 2010 she can load at maximum draft 6.4m.

Pac Acrux in routine enters Port of Palembang to loads rubber commodity for exported to federal America. Amount of rubber payload that usually loaded in Port of Palembang counted more than 4000 tons. As for process of rubber commodity loading are referred as conducted pass by lighter that tender in ship is referred as in Gerong 1 anchorage, Palembang.

Pac Acrux have crew a number of 23 people consist of 19 citizen people of China and 4 citizen people of Philiphine with Master by Lin Shan from China.

As for sea transport route Pac Acrux from Port of Palembang continue sailing to Ciwandan Cigading then Padang and continue its long distance voyage to Houstan and New Orleans the United States. The voyage from Padang Indonesia to Houstan the United States usually gone through for 25-28 days depend on weather situation was in its sailing said Lin Shan the master of Pac Acrux when halting-place to Port of Palembang on 20 January 2010.