Port of Palembang

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Southeast Asia · Multi-Purpose Port

🟡 Low disruption Estimated arrival delay ~3h · Disruption score 15/100
UN/LOCODE
IDPLM
Country
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Port Type
Multi-Purpose Port
Ocean Region
Southeast Asia
Latitude
-2.9900° S
Longitude
104.7600° E

Maritime Risk Context

Voyages from Palembang 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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Vessel Mix

Limited port-call data — fewer than 10 distinct vessels observed at Palembang in the last 180 days. ArcNautical does not publish a vessel-type breakdown for low-traffic ports to avoid statistically misleading percentages.

Port State Control Context

Palembang 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 Palembang

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

ArrivedVesselFlagType
2026-06-14 BSP XXX 🇮🇩 ID Tanker
2026-06-14 JOHN CAINE 2 🇮🇩 ID Tanker
2026-06-14 SEA GULL 18 🇵🇦 PA Tanker
2026-06-13 JOHN CAINE 2 🇮🇩 ID Tanker
2026-06-06 ANNABELLA 🇵🇦 PA Tanker
2026-06-03 ANNABELLA 🇵🇦 PA Tanker
2026-06-02 TB MARINA 2210 🇮🇩 ID Tug
2026-05-31 BOJOMA 2910 🇮🇩 ID Tug
2026-05-31 TB MARINA 2210 🇮🇩 ID Tug
2026-05-31 TB MARINA 2210 🇮🇩 ID Tug

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