1,674,618 passengers travelled between Malta and Gozo during the third quarter this year, this was up by 1.9 per cent when compared to the last year, the National Statistics Office said today.
August saw the highest number of recorded passengers – 582,199 or 34.8 per cent of the total for the quarter.
The NSO noted that the number of vehicles also increased, this time by 3.7 per cent, totalling 463,585.
6,334 trips took place, which was an increase of 0.2 per cent over the same period last year.. Most of this trips were made in August – 2,158 or 34.1 per cent of total trips for the quarter.
Passenger traffic originating from Cirkewwa during January to September, was busiest on Friday and Saturday, whereas from Mgarr, the highest was recorded on Sunday and Saturday.