The number of people crossing between Malta and Gozo between January and March dropped by 2.9% this year compared to the same period last year.

The NSO said commuters between Malta and Gozo totalled 774,147. The number of vehicles carried by scheduled vessels went down by 4.3 per cent, totalling 223,866.

The highest number of commuters was recorded in March (300,667 or 38.8 per cent of the total for the quarter).

The number of trips in the period under review stood at 4,798, an increase of 3.8 per cent over the corresponding period of the previous year. The highest number of trips took place in January - 1,661 - or 34.6 per cent of total trips for this period, when one of the company’s vessels was undergoing routine obligatory docking.

Easter was not a factor in the first quarter figures since it was celebrated in April both last year and this year.

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