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Government has given instructions to the Board of Directors of The Gozo Channel Company to extend the “Gozo Winter Nights” and the “Gozo Winter Weekend” breaks schemes. These two schemes, which were launched in January this year, will be extended up to the end of June.

With the “Gozo Winter Nights” scheme, passengers benefit from a 75 per cent discount on the passenger fares and a 50 per cent discount on the car-plus-driver fare, when the scheme is applicable. Those who avail themselves of the “Gozo Winter Weekend Break” scheme benefit from a 50 per cent discount on the fares when they purchase tickets between noon and midnight on Friday.

In the meantime, Gozo Channel has carried a record 215,600 passengers in the last three weeks. If one compares the three weeks ending on Easter Sunday this year to the similar period last year, there has been a 17 per cent increase in passenger numbers (from over 183,000 last year to 215,600 this year) and a nearly 18 per cent increase in the number of vehicles carried (from 47,000 vehicles last year to 55,600 this year).

An official statement issued by Gozo Channel late on Friday announced that their three ferries carried a record number of 46,284 passengers and 11,232 vehicles between Malta and Gozo in the four days between Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday, a slight increase over the 45,676 and 10,931 passengers and vehicles carried last Easter.