(File photo) MANILA - All shipping and fishing operations in all ports nationwide have been allowed to resume on Wednesday as former tropical storm Agaton dissipated 65 kilometers southeast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. In an advisory, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said the resumption of operations began at 9 a.m.-allowing all passengers, truck drivers and cargo helpers, vessels, motor bancas, and rolling cargoes to travel by sea after being stranded due to inclement weather. In a Laging Handa briefing, PCG spokesperson Commodore Armando Balilo said there were around 3,000 stranded individuals at ports nationwide as of Wednesday morning according to data from the PCG command center. "Pero dahil kahapon ay nagpalayag na tayo dito sa Matnog at kaninang umaga dito sa Central Visayas, inaasahan natin na unti-unti na po itong mababawasan at mawawala (But because we were able to resume sea travel at Matnog and recently in Central Visayas, we expect this to lessen and eventually disappear