MORE than 5,300 passengers were stranded in various ports in Southern Tagalog, Bicol Region, and in Western and Eastern Visayas as Typhoon Tisoy threatened more than a dozen provinces, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard suspended travel from North Port Manila- St Francis de Xavier bound for Cebu, as well as trips from Caticlan to Roxas, Mindoro, Caticlan to Bulalacao, Oriental Mindoro, and Batangas.