00:00Because of the Nika earthquake, some of the ship's voyages were cancelled.
00:05That's why more than 200 passengers were stranded at Manila North Port Terminal.
00:10And Maki Polido was able to talk.
00:16She even tried to talk to them.
00:18They don't want me to go there because it's prohibited.
00:21But there were also some passengers who were not allowed to enter Manila North Port Terminal.
00:26Three voyages of the To-Go Shipping Line were cancelled due to bad weather.
00:30That's why they let the passengers go home.
00:33Some of them stayed at the front gate of the port.
00:37Because some of them came from far away.
00:39Like Christine and her senior citizen's mother who came from Isabela.
00:44When I arrived here, they won't let us in.
00:47We don't know anyone here, ma'am.
00:50The mother couldn't do anything but just sit on the side of the road since she arrived in Pierre a few days ago.
00:56They feel sorry for my mother.
00:58We are allowed to enter there.
01:03Rovelin also doesn't know where she will go.
01:06She is a housemaid and her contract with the agency has been terminated.
01:10I didn't put my number on my ticket.
01:15That's why I didn't know.
01:17It's my agent.
01:19That's why we came here.
01:21The agent didn't text me.
01:23My trip was cancelled.
01:25We asked the Philippine Ports Authority why they don't allow stranded passengers to enter.
01:31We don't have a directive that they are not allowed to enter.
01:34Maybe there is a miscommunication between the shipping lines and the guard.
01:41When the port manager arrived, the passengers were allowed to enter the waiting area.
01:45When the passengers are ticketed, they can come in.
01:49Especially now that there is a storm.
01:53Togo said that they didn't prohibit the stranded passengers from entering the port.
01:57They were only told to go home first because they are not safe in the port because of the storm.
02:02They also rented a container van where they can hide their belongings so that they don't have to go back and forth.
02:09The number of stranded passengers in Manila North Port Terminal is 251.
02:13There is no indication of when the trip will continue.
02:16That's why some of them have a tight budget for food.
02:19We don't know where we can get food.
02:22What I know is that when we are on the ship, the food should be free.
02:29But we are outside so we can't eat anything.
02:32The Philippine Ports Authority is giving loans from the employees of the agency.
02:38For GMA Integrated News, Macky Pulido, for 24 Hours.
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