Tag: Ports of Auckland

Maritime NZ has recently filed charges against Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) and an individual in relation to the death of a port worker almost a year ago.

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. 

World’s first fully-electric handling tug was recently launched into the water at Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam, on December 4, as Damen reported.

Ports of Auckland along with Containerchain shake their hands and inked a 10-year aggement so as to enhance ports' software solutions within the logistics operations.

A worker at the Ports of Auckland was killed in a shipping container incident in the early hours of Sunday, local media reported. The stevedore was working onboard a ship at Fergusson Container Terminal when he was fatally injured at about 2am.

On 7 July, Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam, hosted a keel laying ceremony concerning a fully electric tug vessel that Damen is constructing for the Ports of Auckland.

Ports of Auckland recently announced its plan to deepen the city's shipping channel in order to better deal with the increasing regional and global demand.

The New Zealand Ministry of Transport along with UNISCS recently published the "Final Report of the Upper North Island Supply Chain Strategy Working Group" exploring the options of Auckland's move, while arguing that the plan to move its operations to Northport is no longer environmentally and economically feasible.

A crane toppled off a wharf in Auckland’s Seaview Wharf, on October 2, with the driver of the crane, being inside the crane. Luckily the driver was not injured, while local authorities have launched and investigation to determine the causes of the incident.

New Zealand's Ports of Auckland announced the signing of a contract with Dutch company Damen Shipyards to buy the world's first full-size, fully electric port tug. This comes in line with the port's commitment to be zero emission by 2040, as previously announced.