New Zealand ports agree on new ferry infrastructure
FERRY Holdings, the New Zealand Government-sponsored body charged with acquiring two new rail/ro-paxes for Cook Strait service with KiwiRail and terminal ports Wellington and...
ZIM quits New Zealand for the third time
ISRAELI carrier ZIM and its Hong Kong subsidiary Gold Star Line will withdraw from the Tasman for the third time in two decades and shut down their New Zealand operation. In a...
Treasury advised against NZ rail ferries
NEW Zealand deputy PM and rail minister Winston Peters over-ruled the nation’s Treasury to specify Interisland Line’s replacement Cook Strait ferries be rail-enabled. Following an...
OPINION: New Zealand’s seafarer welfare funding model a benchmark for Australia
THE HEALTH, wellbeing and recuperation of seafarers depends on 21st Century funding for port welfare facilities. In Australia, the current institutional paralysis-by-analysis and...
Chokyu Maru No.68 grounding “a failure of good seamanship”
THE GROUNDING of the Japanese longline fishing vessel Chokyu Maru No.68 when approaching Auckland on 16 April 2024 came about when the crew overlooked the basic of safe...
Maritime New Zealand charges KiwiRail over Aratere grounding
MARITIME New Zealand has filed two charges against KiwiRail after completing what it says is a comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation into the grounding of the Interislander...
Port Marlborough orders new tug
NEW Zealand’s Picton will have a new 70-tonne bollard pull ASD tug in service next year, to complete what Port Marlborough Ltd says will be the nation’s most-modern towage...
Qube New Zealand announces paid parental leave program
QUBE New Zealand has announced a paid parental leave program, with eligible employees having access to “new, market leading” leave benefits from 1 July. These new benefits are to...
Auckland’s electric ferry hits the water
THE TEMPORARILY-named AT1, claimed to be a world-leading 100% electric ferry, was launched from the yard of NZ builder McMullen & Wing early on Wednesday [11 June]. The vessel is...
April decline for box volumes
AUSTRALASIA and Oceania container liftings fell back in April 2025, for both imports and exports compared to the previous month, following a fairly normal seasonal pattern. The...
Aratere fails again
KIWIRAIL’s Cook Strait rail/ro-pax Aratere broke down again last night, just two months ahead of its planned withdrawal. And KiwiRail has revealed fleetmate Kaiarahi suffered...
Scathing report on Shiling failures
A DETAILED report into a “virtually unseaworthy” container ship that twice broke down in NZ waters has led to three pointed recommendations, including changes to national law to...
Inbound Connect expands, both north and south
IT HAS been a busy time for Inbound Connect, which has continued its vehicle booking system (VBS) expansion in Singapore and New Zealand. Inbound Connect is a software as a...
Fiji ferries failing
FIJIAN inter-island ferry operator Goundar Shipping has suffered a second casualty in a little over a week with the ancient ro-pax Lomaiviti Princess II partially capsizing in...
Otago sells and buys
PORT Otago has ordered a new Damen 2312 ASD tug to replace the 21-year-old Otago which has been sold to Australia’s Engage Marine. Port Otago Chief Executive Kevin Winders said...
