Maersk starts NZ coastal service

Maersk has cancelled the domestic coastal service connecting five NZ ports it started in 2022; some NZ containers being transhipped in Melbourne.

A seafarer was killed in an accident onboard an MSC container vessel in Bluff, New Zealand.

It is reported that senior executives from DP World “could be in Auckland as early as next week for secret talks on securing a lease to run Ports of Auckland”.

New Zealand’s fourth largest container terminal has a new berth for container vessels.

New Zealand’s KiwiRail has released the major findings of its investigation into an incident in September 2021 where a remotely controlled shunting locomotive drove off a linkspan and into Picton harbour, taking a wagon and two tank containers with it.

Port Taranaki in New Zealand has handled its first reefer vessel in 17 years, as three key NZ meat exporters extend their use of chartered reefer vessels to get their product to markets