LABUAN: Travellers leaving the island here have been putting up with hour-long queues at the Labuan roll on-roll off (ro-ro) ferry terminal since Friday (May 27), and they have been warned the congestion could spill into the next weekend.
Travellers blamed the congestion on the ‘mixed’ queues of Sabahan and Peninsular travellers at the immigration counter and lack of resources although the exodus had been anticipated.
Chaotic scenes around the Labuan ferry terminal started on Friday, coinciding with the start of the long break. Robert Ling Song Shieng, the manager of Labuan Point Enterprise, the ticketing management company for Putrajaya 1, Goodwill Star, Kimanis 1 and Joy Star, said tickets for the Labuan-Menumbok-Labuan route between May 26 and June 3 were sold out two weeks in advance.
One passenger, who had been due to sail on Sunday, decided at the last minute to spend more than RM1,000 on alternative travel arrangements by flying from Labuan to Kota Kinabalu to dodge the terminal queues.
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