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The in­ter-is­land fer­ry APT James is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 3, 2026, fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of its manda­to­ry five-year dry dock­ing, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia via What­sApp yes­ter­day, John con­firmed the ves­sel will soon be back in ser­vice af­ter go­ing in­to dry dock on No­vem­ber 20, 2025, to un­der­go the re­quired works.

“The dry dock­ing works have been suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed, and all re­lat­ed fees have been paid for the dry dock­ing,” John said.