The bad weather being experienced across the country disrupted ferry services to Hulhumalé and Villimalé on Wednesday.
Officials from Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC), which is responsible for providing ferry services in Malé region, said that the seas had become so rough in the Villimalé and Hulhumalé area that they had decided to cancel the ferry services on Wednesday morning. Due to the disruption, there were no ferries travelling between Villimalé and Malé between 5:30am and 7:30am. The ferries scheduled between Malé and Hulhumalé were also cancelled between 6:00am and 7:30am.
Those who wished to travel from Hulhumalé to Malé between 7:30am and 12:00pm had to travel via the Hulhulé route.
“The ferry service was stopped because the seas were too rough for safe travelling,” an official from MTCC said. “Those in Hulhumalé who wanted to come to Malé had to go to Hulhulé and then take a ferry to Malé.”
Some of the passengers who arrived in Malé via the Hulhulé route complained about it. Some of them were unhappy about having to pay Rf2 to the bus that took them to Hulhulé.
MTCC has said that they might have to cancel some of the scheduled ferries in the near future, depending on the weather.
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