Stop travel issued for maritime transport - MSAF

The Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji has issued a stop travel order for all maritime transport involving passengers and cargo.

MSAF Chief Executive Officer Simon Gravenall says all shipmasters, owners and agents for foreign and local ships, pilots, port management operators, marinas and yacht clubs are to cease travel from today.

Gravenall also says in the exercise of the powers conferred to him under the Maritime Transport Act, he exempts ships from inward and outward clearances on the condition that ships do not carry any passengers and cargo when going out to sea for the sole purpose of taking necessary precautionary measures for the approaching Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasa.