Philippine Coast Guard reports 140,000 maritime passengers beat Holy Week rush

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) stories that greater than 140,000 maritime passengers made their means via ports all through the Philippines as of Wednesday, sixteenth April.

Yesterday alone, 77,782 outbound passengers and 68,890 inbound passengers have gone via port authorities for the Holy Week exodus.

In accordance with the PCG’s scenario report: “4,748 deployed frontline personnel in 16 PCG Districts have inspected 647 vessels and 1,113 motorboats.” 

Heightened alert in full impact

As of Monday, thirteenth April, PCG districts, stations, and sub-stations have been positioned on heightened alert to handle the anticipated inflow of port passengers in the course of the Holy Week.

They’ll stay so till Easter Sunday, twentieth April, when travellers make their means again.

Primarily based on precise seaport passenger site visitors from the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), the variety of seafaring passengers all through the nation hit a mean of over 200,000 per day since Saturday, twelfth April.

There have been 234,268 passengers on Tuesday, 194,922 on Monday, 217,389 on Sunday, and 211,221 passengers on Saturday.