The Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­port Com­pa­ny (TTIT) is ad­vis­ing of changes to the sail­ing sched­ule of the seabridge’s car­go ves­sel—the MV Cabo Star, from this week­end.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTIT, this is main­ly be­cause its op­er­a­tions have been scaled-back be­cause of the cur­rent COVID-19 cri­sis.

In ad­di­tion, the TTIT is re­mind­ing cus­tomers and pas­sen­gers that they must ad­here to the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance / COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions, name­ly the hy­giene, so­cial dis­tanc­ing and oth­er safe­ty pro­to­cols, to slow the spread of the dis­ease.

The full text of the ad­vi­so­ry from the TTIT, fol­lows.

NON-SAIL­ING OF THE M.V CABO STAR ON SUN­DAYS

The Man­age­ment of TTIT wish­es to ad­vise all Port Users that the mea­sures to con­tain the COVID-19 virus have re­strict­ed the move­ment of per­sons and oth­er re­sources at this time.

This has re­sult­ed in the re­duc­tion of car­go to be trans­port­ed to and from To­ba­go, main­ly car­go to be shipped on Sun­days. As such due to re­duced de­mands the M.V Cabo Star will not be sail­ing on Sun­days, with ef­fect from Sun­day 3rd May, 2020.

In ad­di­tion to the M.V Cabo Star not sail­ing on Sat­ur­days which is its main­te­nance day, the ves­sel will not be sail­ing on Sun­days un­til such time that the sit­u­a­tion re­turns to nor­mal­cy.

In or­der to con­tain the spread of COVID-19 all cus­tomers/pas­sen­gers util­is­ing the in­ter­is­land ser­vice must ad­here to the fol­low­ing guide­lines:

*  Un­der­go a screen­ing ex­er­cise pri­or to en­ter­ing our port ter­mi­nals and fer­ries.

*  Any­one dis­play­ing flu like symp­toms are not al­lowed to en­ter the ter­mi­nal with­out proof of med­ical as­sess­ment.

*  Wear face masks.

*  Wash/san­i­tize hands pri­or to en­ter­ing the ter­mi­nals.

*  Prac­tice prop­er so­cial dis­tanc­ing in the ter­mi­nals and on the fer­ries.

*  Re­strict move­ment dur­ing sail­ings and be re­mind­ed that café and bar will be closed.

This or­gan­i­sa­tion is com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing crit­i­cal in­ter-is­land fer­ry op­er­a­tions; how­ev­er, the trav­el­ling pub­lic is here­by ad­vised that on­ly es­sen­tial trav­el should be en­ter­tained at this time, to re­duce the risk of com­mu­ni­ty trans­mis­sion of the COVID-19 virus.