Update 10.30pm: Gozo News has been informed that the free travel offer by Gozo Channel this weekend will continue until all the vehicles awaiting at the marshalling area at Mgarr in Gozo are boarded.

Originally the free travel to Gozo offer was due to finish at 1.30am on Monday morning.

Long queues of vehicles reaching almost to Victoira are waiting to cross from Gozo. as Maltese return home after the weekend’s events, in settled and sunny weather.

Gozo Channel had said that the ferries would be running on a shuttle service for this weekend and that “they will operate with full capacity and will provide a day and night shuttle service if it is required.”

Update: The Ministry for Gozo confirmed in a statement this evening that the Free Travel Weekend scheme on Gozo Chanel will be extended overnight to allow all those who visited Gozo for the weekend to return.

The Ministry said that the weekend event, at a time of year which is tradionally thought of as out of season, was a great success for local businesses and thanked all those involved who worked to ensure that the initiative was a successful one.

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