Tag: New Zealand

New Zealand's Oceans and Fisheries Minister David Parker says the Government is considering if "higher levels of compulsion" are necessary to ensure port workers get vaccinated.

Effective from 1st July, the New Zealand government has updated its Maritime Transport Act 1994 to allow maritime levies to fund seafarer welfare services for the purposes of the MLC. 

New Zealand has changed the Maritime Border Order (MBO) in force, related to the display of signage signifying a vessel’s quarantine status.

One worker died and another two were injured after a tornado hit a shipping container yard at New Zealand's Ports of Auckland on Saturday morning. 

The AGM expert group of the North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO) has proposed revisions of the current risk periods for Asian Gypsy Moth in all the regulated countries. 

Following the announcement that New Zealand will allow a funding to boost seafarers’ welfare services, as part of its commitment to allow more support to seafarers visiting the country, it was confirmed that this law will become effective from July 1st.

New Zealand's Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor recently announced that livestock exports of animals at the island country will be banned.

Following the police's investigation into the potential human trafficking of dozens of Filipino seafarers in the country's shipping industry, New Zealand transport workers’ unions are calling on their government to put Fiji on notice. To remind, Fijian authorities launched an investigation into a ferry operator's allegedly ongoing abusive treatment of dozens of Filipino seafarers. In fact, ITF reported that staff at Goundar Shipping tried to confiscate a number of seafarers’ passports and other documents upon beginning work with the company. Investigations by unions have uncovered allegations of widespread abuse, underpayment, unsafe conditions, and even of human trafficking and slavery, in New Zealand’s own backyard. ...said Paul Tolich, chair of the ITF New Zealand National Coordinating Committee. In addition, Mr Tolich said that New Zealand unions welcomed news that a Police investigation has finally been launched, but that fears of a potential whitewash remain once the seafarers leave the country back to the Philippines. "I am writing on behalf of our affiliates to the New Zealand ministers of Foreign Affairs and Workplace Relations, urging them to raise the seafarers’ case immediately with their counterparts in Suva. Fiji needs to know that, as New Zealanders, we expect a thorough investigation of the ...

The Government of New Zealand announced a funding boost for seafarers' welfare services, as part of its commitment to allow more support to seafarers visiting the country. 

New Zealand's Ministry of Health has granted conditional approval to the French cruise company Ponant to restart sailings in New Zealand, but limited only to local residents. In this way, the country is becoming the next destination to permit a limited resumption of cruises starting in February 2021.