The only access from Surabaya to Madura Island and vice versa is to use the ferry crossing of the Perak Port-Kamal Port. His condition is now very congested. Total fleet of ferries which used as many as 18 units, the average age has also been very old.
The ferries run by six companies, through its three docks at each port. With the number of ferries and defector who could not balanced, causing long waiting time. Obtained from a survey conducted ferry traffic volume per direction per day in the year 2002 is 315 units of light vehicles, small trucks in 1036, 324 large trucks, 260 buses and 8128 pieces of fruit a motorcycle. The available capacity of the ferry is already saturated, indicated by the average waiting time of vehicles which occurred at the port end and Kamal port is 30 minutes. Except for the type of motorcycle is more freely through the queue. While the time spent to raise the passengers from the ferry port to over 15 minutes. Travel time required for 30-minute crossing, and the time to unloadung process is 15 mins. The total time it takes about 60 minutes or one hour. This time will become longer when a weekend or holiday season.
The ferries run by six companies, through its three docks at each port. With the number of ferries and defector who could not balanced, causing long waiting time. Obtained from a survey conducted ferry traffic volume per direction per day in the year 2002 is 315 units of light vehicles, small trucks in 1036, 324 large trucks, 260 buses and 8128 pieces of fruit a motorcycle. The available capacity of the ferry is already saturated, indicated by the average waiting time of vehicles which occurred at the port end and Kamal port is 30 minutes. Except for the type of motorcycle is more freely through the queue. While the time spent to raise the passengers from the ferry port to over 15 minutes. Travel time required for 30-minute crossing, and the time to unloadung process is 15 mins. The total time it takes about 60 minutes or one hour. This time will become longer when a weekend or holiday season.
