Buccoo Reef ferry maintenance on hold for Easter demand

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Buccoo Reef ferry maintenance on hold for Easter demand

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News FILE PHOTO: The Buccoo Reef fast ferry. - The statutory maintenance programme for the Buccoo Reef ferry has been rescheduled to April 20 to facilitate the Easter weekend demand for travel to and from Tobago. Two weeks ago TT Inter-island Transportation Co (TTIT) announced the ferry would go on scheduled dry-docking during Easter. In a subsequent release on Wednesday TTIT said the vessel would work alongside the TT Spirit, Galleons […]

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