The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) stories that greater than 140,000 maritime passengers made their method by means of ports all through the Philippines as of Wednesday, sixteenth April.
Yesterday alone, 77,782 outbound passengers and 68,890 inbound passengers have gone by means of port authorities for the Holy Week exodus.
In response to the PCG’s state of affairs 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 through the Holy Week.
They’ll stay so till Easter Sunday, twentieth April, when travellers make their method again.
Based mostly 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.
