Fiji copes with yachting boom

12:38 AM Mon 30 May 2011 GMT

'Yachting booms in Fiji' .

Fiji is having to expand its customs and immigration facilities to cope with a yachting boom. According to the Biosecurity Authority of Fiji(BAF) thirty-two officers are to be recruited because of the increase in workload created by the recent influx of yachts, particularly superyachts. The authority's deputy chief executive officer Waisiki Gonemaituba said their officers were stretched because they were trying to cater for the many yachts entering Fiji waters. He said rise in arrivals was because of the recently endorsed 2010 Super Yacht Charter Decree. 'We need the extra manpower,' he said. The decree, endorsed on March 30, 2010 ...

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