PPA, inaasahan ang pagtaas ng bilang ng mga pasahero sa mga pantalan na babalik ng Metro Manila ngayong araw
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00:00 Even though the Easter week is over, the country's border guards are still watching the passengers returning from Metro Manila after a long vacation.
00:10 Rod Lagusa and in Central News, live.
00:13 Angelique, the Philippine Ports Authority is still in control of the country's borders.
00:23 This is still the routine of our countrymen after the holy week.
00:28 The Philippine Ports Authority is still in control of the country's borders after the long weekend or holy week.
00:38 According to the PPA, from March 22 to March 31, Easter Sunday, more than 1.8 million passengers were registered.
00:46 Of this number, more than 269,000 passengers were registered yesterday, Easter Sunday, in the country's borders.
00:53 According to PPA spokesperson Eunice Samonte, they expect that this number will increase today, especially since there are still people returning home.
01:01 The PPA expects that 2 million passengers will be registered.
01:08 We expect that the number of passengers will increase and the data that we have now,
01:16 because most of our countrymen, even though some of them are choosing not to go home with the majority of those who returned home yesterday,
01:26 they will travel this Monday.
01:28 We expect that this number will increase and the data that we have now, will increase.
01:37 Among the countries with the highest number of passengers registered are Mindoro, Panay, Batangas, Negros Oriental, Siquijor, and Bohol.
01:47 Actually, one of the reasons why there are a lot of people here in PMO Mindoro,
01:54 aside from the people returning home from Mindoro,
01:57 is the tourist spots there, like Puerto Galera, where a lot of people go to the beach during the holy week.
02:03 That's one of the tourist spots during the holy week.
02:07 Meanwhile, when it comes to the Batangas port, which is near the city.
02:13 In Batangas port, our monitoring, I think the daily average passenger is around 30,000.
02:25 We have monitored a lot of places in Batangas, because it's a gateway from Batangas.
02:32 There are trips to Luzon, Visayas, and Danau.
02:38 Here in Manila, the number of people monitored by the PPA is not that high.
02:45 According to Samonte, people usually gather here during the peak season, like December.
02:52 That's why the government implemented some changes here,
02:56 including the release of the Terminal Fee Counter and the expansion of the Concurse Area of Manila North Port.
03:02 Aside from this, the reason why it's helpful here is that the number of passengers who didn't gather compared to December,
03:09 there were no cancelled trips because of the bad weather.
03:13 Angeli, the PPA is reminding us that April 1st or April Fool's Day is not a good time to joke like a bomb joke,
03:21 because last Wednesday, March 27, there was a passenger joke in a passenger terminal building in Puerto Galera,
03:31 which is now facing the anti-bomb joke law.
03:34 Rod, for those who are returning, are there any incidents where people lost their luggage or maybe someone was caught and their belongings were stolen?
03:50 Based on what we heard from the PPA spokesperson, there were no incidents here in the North Port where people lost their luggage.
04:00 But we noticed that there are people who are chasing people who are traveling here.
04:03 We talked to them earlier, they are traveling to Osami City, where they brought a lot of luggage,
04:07 but they really did it on purpose because they have a child with them.
04:10 And they know that there are only a few passengers today.
04:13 Okay, thank you very much Rod Lagusan.