Undas sea travelers swell to over 114,000 Saturday afternoon – PCG

MANILA, Philippines — The number of passengers in seaports across the country swelled to more than 114,000 by Saturday afternoon, ahead of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, or undas.

The Philippine Coast Guard monitored 60,411 outbound passengers and 54,291 inbound passengers, as of 12:34 p.m.

The tally was covered in its noon to 6 p.m. monitoring.

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Earlier, around 30,000 travelers were recorded to have passed through seaports nationwide as of 7 a.m.

The Philippine Ports Authority expects the number of seaport users to to increase to 1.93 million, a slight increase from 1.90 million passengers recorded in 2025.

The PCG said it deployed 6,221 frontline personnel and conducted inspections of 540 vessels and 806 motor bancas.

All of its units were placed on heightened alert from Oct. 29 to Nov. 3 due to the expected high volume of Undas season passengers. /gsg