Port of Batam

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Southeast Asia · Multi-Purpose Port

🟠 Moderate disruption Estimated arrival delay ~11h · Disruption score 30/100
UN/LOCODE
IDBTM
Country
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Port Type
Multi-Purpose Port
Ocean Region
Southeast Asia
Latitude
1.0500° N
Longitude
104.0300° E

Maritime Risk Context

In the last 180 days, ArcNautical recorded 12 vessel arrivals at Batam, with Cargo accounting for 55% of port calls — higher than the Southeast Asia regional average of 48%. Voyages from Batam in Indonesia navigate the world's busiest shipping lanes, anchored by the Strait of Malacca — a 550-mile corridor through which roughly 100,000 vessels transit annually. The Malacca and Singapore Straits remain a persistent piracy hotspot, with ReCAAP recording dozens of incidents per year; most are low-level opportunistic theft at anchor, but the geographic concentration demands attention in any voyage risk model. Waters off eastern Sabah and the Sulu Sea present a more severe kidnap-for-ransom threat. PSC inspection regimes vary substantially across ASEAN members, and the Tokyo MOU detention data identifies which flags and vessel types face elevated scrutiny in the region.

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Top Vessel Types (last 180 days)

Across 12 distinct vessel arrivals, 11 carry a confirmed AIS ship-type code. The most common categories at Batam:

55%
Cargo
6 vessels
18%
Other
2 vessels
9%
Unknown
1 vessel
9%
Unknown
1 vessel
9%
Cargo
1 vessel

Port State Control Context

Batam falls under the Tokyo MoU. The Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding (Asia-Pacific) maintains the most active publicly-available regional PSC programme. Across the last 24 months, the Tokyo MoU detention dataset records 5,331 distinct vessel detentions (sourced from OpenSanctions, as of 2026-06-14). Vessel-level detention probability is computed by ArcNautical using flag performance, vessel age, deficiency history, and ownership opacity.

Recent Arrivals at Batam

Last 10 vessel arrivals recorded by ArcNautical's AIS pipeline (last 90 days):

ArrivedVesselFlagType
2026-06-09 ENDEAVOUR 🇮🇩 ID Unknown
2026-06-08 CRISTOBAL COLON 🇱🇺 LU Unknown
2026-06-08 ENDEAVOUR 🇮🇩 ID Unknown
2026-06-07 ENDEAVOUR 🇮🇩 ID Unknown
2026-06-06 ENDEAVOUR 🇮🇩 ID Unknown
2026-06-06 KAIROS JAYA 9 🇮🇩 ID Cargo
2026-06-03 TANTO NUSANTARA 🇮🇩 ID Cargo
2026-06-02 SINAR PANGANDARAN 🇮🇩 ID Other
2026-05-30 ZHONG QUAN 10 🇨🇳 CN Cargo
2026-05-28 ZHONG QUAN 10 🇨🇳 CN Cargo

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