The Buc­coo Reef In­ter-Is­land fast fer­ry will sus­pend its ve­hi­cle trans­porta­tion ser­vice for two weeks next month.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) made the an­nounce­ment yes­ter­day, as it ad­vised the pub­lic that this in­ter­rup­tion will be due to the fact that the shore-based Fast Fer­ry ramp at the GSS Ter­mi­nal in Port-of-Spain is sched­uled to be over­hauled in keep­ing with the man­u­fac­tur­er’s ad­vice. The works are sched­uled to com­mence on No­vem­ber 8 for a pe­ri­od of two weeks.

Dur­ing the pe­ri­od of the project works, the Buc­coo Reef, Galleons Pas­sage and the MV Cabo Star will be the on­ly ves­sels ser­vic­ing the in­ter-is­land route.

The works will re­sult in the tem­po­rary re­lo­ca­tion of the Buc­coo Reef from its main berth, as the Fast Fer­ry ramp will be out of use.

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 8, the fol­low­ing will ap­ply: The Buc­coo Reef will be re­lo­cat­ed to Berth #3 at the Cruise Ship Com­plex, with the tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of ve­hi­cles; the Galleons Pas­sage will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate from its berth at the GSS Jet­ty (POS), trans­port­ing 400 pas­sen­gers and 60 ve­hi­cles; the APT James will be tak­en out of ser­vice and the Cabo Star will sail Mon­day to Sun­day de­part­ing from Trinidad at 2 pm and from To­ba­go at 11 pm.

All ves­sels will berth at the Port of Scar­bor­ough as nor­mal.

The TTIT man­age­ment apol­o­gised for any in­con­ve­nience caused by these works, which it said are nec­es­sary for the con­tin­u­a­tion of the full ser­vice to and from To­ba­go.