New ferry still docked in China ? Whey PJ?
On February 5, Finance Minister Colm Imbert posted on his Twitter account that delivery date of the Galleons Passage “is now set for Wednesday, February 7th, 2018,” and that the vessel “is scheduled to set sail for Trinidad and Tobago on February 9th, 2018.”
On February 8, he again posted on Twitter “It’s official. The Galleons Passage, our new RoPax Ferry, was today registered in the name of the National Infrastructure Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago. An experienced crew is currently being mobilised in Guandong, China to sail the vessel to Port-of-Spain.”
But yesterday a check on the shipping website vessel finder indicated that the Galleons Passage was still berthed in China.
The problems of a reliable ferry service began on April 22, 2017 after the departure of the Superfast Galicia.
Over the Carnival weekend, the island was without a passenger ferry after the lone passenger ferry, the T&T Express, was taken out of service last week, having failed to get a renewal of its class certificate from the international certification body DNV.
The Port says that the T&T Express should return to the seabridge by the weekend. A second passenger ferry, the T&T Spirit, has been on dry dock undergoing repairs since June 2017.
On February 8, he again posted on Twitter “It’s official. The Galleons Passage, our new RoPax Ferry, was today registered in the name of the National Infrastructure Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago. An experienced crew is currently being mobilised in Guandong, China to sail the vessel to Port-of-Spain.”
But yesterday a check on the shipping website vessel finder indicated that the Galleons Passage was still berthed in China.
The problems of a reliable ferry service began on April 22, 2017 after the departure of the Superfast Galicia.
Over the Carnival weekend, the island was without a passenger ferry after the lone passenger ferry, the T&T Express, was taken out of service last week, having failed to get a renewal of its class certificate from the international certification body DNV.
The Port says that the T&T Express should return to the seabridge by the weekend. A second passenger ferry, the T&T Spirit, has been on dry dock undergoing repairs since June 2017.
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