ADDITIONAL sailings on the seabridge on July 2 and 3 to accommodate passengers stranded as a result of the passage of Hurricane Beryl have cleared the backlog.

On July 2, hundreds of stranded passengers gathered outside the Scarborough Port from as early as 4 am, while a long line of commuters were seen in their vehicles along the waterfront, all hoping to secure a ticket for the sailings added to the Port Authority’s schedule.

This comes after all sailings were cancelled on July 1 due to the hurricane.

When Newsday visited the Scarborough Port on July 3, the inter-island ferry Buccoo Reef could be seen leaving the harbour for its journey to Trinidad around midday.

When contacted, TT Inter-island Transportation Company Limited (TTIT) acting CEO Vilma Lewis-Cockburn said: “The backlog has apparently been cleared, we have a last sailing at 4 pm so we are really hoping that everything would be rectified by then. “More or less, it would be cleared up today – usually we just have one sailing but today we have two as we have one additional. But the backlog should be cleared today.”

On July 2, there were long lines and frustration at the port as hundreds of people left stranded in Tobago after the disruption to the seabridge caused by Hurricane Beryl on July 1 rushed to get on one of the three sailings to Trinidad.

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