Problems continue to plague the sea bridge as Caribbean Airlines had to schedule additional flights following the cancellation of sailings of the T&T Express on Sunday at 3 pm and 6.30 pm respectively.
But president of the Inter-Island Truckers and Traders Association Horace Amede is calling for better measures to be implemented saying members were forced to fork out additional money for additional expenses.
In a statement, manager of Marketing and Public Relations of the T&T Inter-Island Transportation Company Vilma Lewis-Cockburn had initially said there were cancellation of sailings of the T&T Express on Sunday at 3 pm and at 6.30 am yesterday but efforts were being made to resume the sailings later yesterday at 3.30 pm.
But in a subsequent statement she said due to ongoing repairs on the vessel the 3.30 pm sailing had to be cancelled as well as the 6.30 am sailing scheduled from Tobago today.
Lewis-Cockburn said passengers were advised the MV Cabo Star was expected to sail from Port-of-Spain at 2 pm and from Tobago at 11 pm yesterday.
She also advised that passengers wishing to send their vehicles on these sailings could make the arrangements with the passenger area at the terminals.
Amede, however, in an interview said yesterday the disruptions were having an adverse effect on his members.
He said some left their car keys in their vehicles to be sent to Tobago and had gone to Piarco Airport but were unable to access a flight.
“This situation is really affecting the members very adversely. Some also cannot even get a flight to return from Tobago,” Amede said.
He said members also had to bear additional cost of plane tickets and ground transportation.
President of the Inter-island Transport Committee’s Tobago Division Dianne Hadad, when contacted yesterday, said she was in a meeting.
Efforts to contact Dionne Ligoure, Manager of Corporate Communications of Caribbean Airlines were unsuccessful and messages left were not returned.