A to­tal of 22,318 pas­sen­gers and 7,570 ve­hi­cles were trans­port­ed by fer­ries be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the 2025 To­ba­go Car­ni­val last month.

The T&T In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) in a re­lease yes­ter­day said 68 trips were com­plet­ed be­tween Oc­to­ber 21 and 29, in­clud­ing 22 ad­di­tion­al sail­ings to meet in­creased de­mand.

Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) had al­so added 3,200 ex­tra seats for the pe­ri­od, sup­ple­ment­ing the 18,792 seats al­ready avail­able be­tween Oc­to­ber 22 and 29.

The air­line used an ad­di­tion­al Boe­ing 737 air­craft to ease air bridge con­ges­tion and fa­cil­i­tate trav­el to the is­land for the fes­tiv­i­ties.

This means about 44,000 peo­ple trav­elled to To­ba­go this year for Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val—22,318 by fer­ry and rough­ly 22,000 by air, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures from CAL and the In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny.

Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Faith Breb­nor de­scribed the event as a “re­sound­ing suc­cess”, not­ing record-high vis­i­tor ar­rivals, full ho­tel oc­cu­pan­cy, and an in­ci­dent-free fes­ti­val.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly al­lo­cat­ed just un­der $12 mil­lion for this year’s Car­ni­val, up from $8.5 mil­lion in 2024. Breb­nor said the in­vest­ment was jus­ti­fied giv­en the strong turnout and pos­i­tive eco­nom­ic im­pact.

TTIT said all sail­ings were ful­ly sub­scribed and thanked pas­sen­gers for their co­op­er­a­tion dur­ing one of the busiest trav­el pe­ri­ods of the year be­tween the twin is­lands. —Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les