More than 13,000 vehicles remained stranded and kept waiting for ferry transportation from Hainan region on Thursday evening. As per the local authorities, the traffic halt was because of a thick fog layer that kept on affecting ordinary ship administrations at Haikou ports.
As per the Meteorological Department, thick fog has covered Qiongzhou Strait, which joins Guangdong territory with Hainan, for the last seven days, the lengthiest period since 1951.
By Thursday at 11:30 am, 9,825 vehicles had been carried by ferries. However, by 6 pm, there were yet 13,251 vehicles in-lined for transportation, with huge numbers of them have held up over 14 hours, as demonstrated by official information.
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From February 15 to 21, the ferries further carried 86,109 vehicles from Hainan. However, stranded cars kept on swarming streets close to the three ports in Haikou, as interims of thick fog kept on affecting the services.
To help facilitate the congested driving conditions, the Haikou city government gave government representatives a free day on Thursday. The administration likewise requested its government workers to give fundamental administrations to stranded travelers.
To complex the issues, a nearby Hainan vessel Xinying F069 also sank subsequent to crashing into the traveler ship Haikou 9 off New Hai'an Port in Xuwen, Guangdong area, with five individuals from Xinying F069 falling into the water.
To ease out the traffic chaos, Hainan Airlines also kept its step forth and said it would arrange for wide-body aircraft and increase flights that would help in easing out the auto queues. The airlines would add 88 flights to run between February 23 and March 2 to help stranded passengers.
Hainan is a prevalent holiday destination that welcomes 5.67 million sightseers during the Lunar New Year occasion and excess of 92,000 cars during the week.
The quantity of vehicular traffic coming to Island city, Hainan from the mainland cities has expanded by 15 percent a year since the central government in the year 2010 has assigned Hainan to develop as a worldwide tourism destination.
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