As con­cerns es­ca­late over the dis­rup­tion to the car­go ser­vice on the seabridge, To­ba­go busi­ness­es have suf­fered yet an­oth­er com­mer­cial blow.

The MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny failed to set sail for Scar­bor­ough at the sched­uled 9.30 pm de­par­ture time yes­ter­day, leav­ing dozens of truck­ers - with their goods al­ready loaded - frus­trat­ed.

Ear­li­er that day, the Port Au­thor­i­ty de­fend­ed its man­age­ment of the seabridge since the Cabo Star ex­it­ed on Jan­u­ary 12. It out­lined the con­tin­gency mea­sures in place and not­ed the Blue Wave Har­mo­ny's sched­ule for the re­main­der of the month. Load­ing of the ves­sel was sched­uled from 10 am to 2 pm, with sail­ing sched­uled for sev­en and a half hours lat­er.