April 29th, 20191The New Zealand government is looking at shifting the country’s largest container port away from its prime real estate position in the country’s largest city. An initial report commissioned by the government backs up Auckland Council’s idea to shift Ports of Auckland, which the council owns, to a different location, likely the...
March 5th, 20191Wisdom Marine, a Taiwanese owner, was forced to stump up cash to pay crew on its bulker, , after the ship was impounded in New Zealand. The ship was detained by Maritime New Zealand when it arrived at the port of Christchurch earlier this month after it was revealed that the crew onboard had not been paid for nearly four months. The...
December 19th, 20180Norway’s DOF has been awarded a contract with Shell Taranaki in New Zealand for 2012-built anchor handling tug supply vessel . The 60-day contract is scheduled to commence in January. Skandi Emerald is owned by DOF Deepwater, a joint venture between DOF and Aker Solutions.
December 13th, 20181A captain of a chemical tanker has been fired by shipmanager Anglo-Eastern after being found more than three times over the legal drinking limit as his ship was due to leave New Zealand’s Port Taranaki laden with a cargo of methanol. Compounding the issue, the ship was meant to be a dry ship according to Anglo-Eastern...
December 10th, 20186The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will hold discussions with state authorities and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to review whether or not the country will allow the use of open-loop scrubbers in Australian waters. As it stands, AMSA will permit ships operating in Australian waters to use all scrubber...
September 4th, 20180A young New Zealand docker died yesterday after his straddle crane overturned at Ports of Auckland at 3:45am on August 27. Paddy Crumlin, ITF Dockers’ Section chair and national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, commented: “Another dockworker, has been killed at work. This is fast becoming a global epidemic. We know...
August 28th, 20181The container terminal at the port of Auckland remained closed for a second day today as investigations into an accident yesterday continue. The terminal was closed on Monday after a port worker was severely injured in a straddle carrier accident. The worker remains in a critical condition. Matt Ball, a spokesman for Ports of...
August 27th, 20182Port of Auckland has temporarily closed its container terminal after a port worker was severely injured after a straddle carrier he was operating overturned early this morning. Emergency services extracted the worker from the truck and sent him to Auckland Hospital where he is in a critical condition. According to Wayne Thompson,...
August 23rd, 20180Østensjø Rederi has sold 2003-built IMR, survey and light construction vessel to the Royal New Zealand Navy. Local media puts the price at NZ$103m ($69m) while delivery is scheduled for May 2019. Prior to delivery, the vessel will be outfitted with dive, ROV and hydrographic systems as requested by the buyer. Kenneth Walland,...
May 18th, 20180New Zealand has become the first country in the world to introduce biofouling rules across the nation’s waters. “About 90% of non-indigenous marine species in New Zealand, such as Mediterranean fanworm, Japanese kelp and Australian droplet tunicate, arrived on international vessels. These incursions harm our aquaculture...
