On Sunday evening long delays were experienced for those crossing from Gozo to Malta, PN Spokesperson for Gozo Chris Said has said. The queue reached back as far as the road to the Heliport at Xewkija.

Writing on social media on Monday morning, he said that there were those who waited more than two hours in the queue. Others writing on social media reported that they had waited for 5 hours to cross from Gozo to Malta.

The PN MP went on to say that the reason for the delays was that “from 9.00pm Gozo Channel only operated two ships and one of them was the Gaudos.”

“The Nikolaus for which we are paying millions a year was stopped from service at 9.00pm even though there were long queues stretching back to Xewkija,” said Dr Said.

He argued that “these delays were despite that fact that this Government has increased the subsidy for Gozo Channel from 700,000 euros per year to more than 5 million euros per year.”

The Shadow Minister concluded by saying that, “the Nationalist Party is promising to build 2 new ships to add to the fleet of 3 ships built by the same PN Government to provide the best service. One of theses ships will be dedicated to cargo and commercial vehicles and operates to and from Valletta.”

File photo by Alain Salvary

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