▲ Passenger ship to empty Tsushima
Unlike Japan's Bianan, the Japanese boycott of the Korean people's opposition to the Abe regime's export restrictions is `` singing off soon. ''
The number of passengers also decreases rapidly as time passes on the Korea-Japan route from Busan to Japan's Tama Island and Fukuoka.
According to the Busan Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office on the 21st, the number of international passenger ships on the Korea-Japan route between Busan and Korea, starting from July 1, when the Japanese export regulations began, and 18 days later this month, totaled 10,380. 50.1% less than 3,250 people.
The number of passengers between Busan and Daemado, which are almost all Koreans, decreased 57.4% from 12,650 last year to 53,530 this year, the biggest decrease.
Busan to Shimonoseki route decreased by 40.6%, Busan to Fukuoka route to 37.5%, and Busan to Osaka route by 36.8%.
The decrease in passenger traffic on the Korea-Japan route is getting steeper over time.
According to the Busan Port Authority's weekly analysis of the number of passengers since July, the rate of decrease of passengers from 27.2% in the first week of July increased to 35.0% in the second week, 53.2% in the third week, 41.8% in the fourth week, and 49.5% in the fifth week. .
The decrease in passenger traffic for some carriers, mainly on Tsushima, has reached up to 90%.
In fact, it's like flying on an empty boat.
As the number of passengers plummeted, passenger ships on the Izuhara route between Busan and Tsushima ceased operations on the 18th of this month.
As the cancellation of existing reservations continues, new reservations are known to have been cut off, and the decline in passenger ship passengers will continue for a considerable period of time.
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