Local News

Nagasaki Prefecture said it planned to use the funds derived this year from the conversion of the gasoline surtax to the general fund to conduct a trial for reducing the fare on passenger ships to the prefecture’s outlying islands. The trial, which will begin this fall, will reduce the tolls by 20%. The objective will be to boost traffic to the island and thereby promote commerce. It will be the first trial of its kind in the nation, and the Kyushu District Transport Bureau praised it as an innovative idea for eliminating the structural problems of the islands.