Maritime New Zealand - Latest News [Page 9]
Yellow And Pink Flags Showing The Way For America’s Cup Spectators
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 8:29 am | Maritime New Zealand
The distinctive yellow and pink flag is giving confidence to on-the-water spectators that they are travelling with a safe commercial operator as they watch the America’s Cup yachts this week. Maritime NZ has made the flag available to commercial operators ... More >>
Maritime NZ Calls For Boaties To Put Safety First As Boat Sales Skyrocket
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 12:36 pm | Maritime New Zealand
With boat sales skyrocketing as Kiwis stay home this summer, Maritime NZ is urging boaties to get to grips with safety before heading out on the water. The NZ Marine Industry Association is seeing record boat sales and Maritime NZ says ... More >>
RCCNZ Coordinating Mahia Peninsular Helicopter Rescue
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 8:27 am | Maritime New Zealand
Rescue Coordination Centre NZ is coordinating the response to a crashed Robinson 44 helicopter with one person on board on the Mahia Peninsular. Emergency services are on scene and confirmed the pilot has sustained moderate injuries. The pilot is ... More >>
North Island Mussels Fined $150K For Hand Crushing
Tuesday, 10 November 2020, 4:47 pm | Maritime New Zealand
North Island Mussels Limited has been fined $150,000 and ordered to pay $31,000 in reparation after an 18-year-old crew member’s hand was crushed in a pulley on mussel farming vessel Waikawau on 9 January 2019 off the Coromandel Peninsula. Michael-Paul ... More >>
Stevedoring Company Spends More Than $425,000 In First-ever Maritime Enforceable Undertaking
Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 9:28 am | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) from one of New Zealand’s biggest stevedoring companies, ISO Limited, after a near-fatal incident involving one of their workers in December 2017. The EU will cost ISO Limited $425,000, plus ... More >>
$783k Jubilee Penalty Highlights Operator Health And Safety Responsibilities
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 4:56 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ says the prosecution of Ocean Fisheries Limited, operators of the Jubilee , sends a message to vessels’ owners and operators that health and safety is as much their responsibility as it is that of skippers and crew. The operators were ... More >>
Master And Chief Engineer Plead Guilty In MV Funing Case
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 5:58 am | Maritime New Zealand
The Master and Chief Engineer of the log-carrier MV Funing , have today been sentenced and fined after admitting charges relating to the grounding of the ship at the Port of Tauranga in July. Master Liang Guang Hong and Chief Engineer Chameekara Prasad ... More >>
A Year In Aotearoa: Images From NZ Geographic Photographer Of The Year On Display At Maritime Museum
Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 3:01 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Images of flatmates chopping each other’s hair during a Covid-19 lockdown in Auckland, a whale cruising near Kaikōura, dust from the Australian bush fires settling on the Southern Alps, a memorial for victims of the Christchurch mosque ... More >>
No Excuses On-water Boating Safety Campaign Hits Record High
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 12:32 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ’s No Excuses on-water compliance campaign has reached new heights, with a record-breaking 4,208 on-water interactions with boaties to drive a safer boating culture. The increased on-water interactions have also resulted in encouraging ... More >>
Some Recreational Water-based Activities Prohibited Under Alert Levels 3 And 2
Thursday, 13 August 2020, 4:18 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Due to the recent change in COVID Alert Levels in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, Maritime NZ and Sport New Zealand have updated their advice around recreational water-based activities under Alert Level 3 and Alert Level 2. For the Auckland Region ... More >>
Fuller’s Skipper Fined $2,500 After Colliding With Navigation Light
Monday, 10 August 2020, 8:20 am | Maritime New Zealand
The skipper of Auckland-based Fullers Group ferry, Torea, has been fined $2,500 for causing unnecessary danger by failing to maintain a proper lookout and colliding with a lit navigation buoy in the Waitematā Harbour. Maritime NZ Northern Regional ... More >>
Ports Of Auckland And Ship’s Master Fined $432,400 For Excessive Speed
Friday, 24 July 2020, 2:29 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Ports of Auckland Limited (POAL) and one of its ship’s masters have been fined a total of $432,400 after they admitted exposing people to risk of death or serious injury because pilot boats travelled at excessive speed in the Waitematā Harbour ... More >>
Funing To Be Towed Into Port Of Tauranga For Repairs
Tuesday, 14 July 2020, 8:58 am | Maritime New Zealand
The log carrier involved in an incident at Port of Tauranga last week, Funing , will complete a towage trial this morning before being towed into the port later today to begin repairs. An additional offshore tug, Pacific Runner , has arrived ... More >>
$240,000 Fine For Dropping 15 Tonne Excavator From Ship’s Crane
Friday, 10 July 2020, 11:36 am | Maritime New Zealand
Tauranga-based stevedoring company, C3 Limited, was fined $240,000 by the Auckland District Court yesterday after a 15 tonne excavator was dropped from a ship’s crane, narrowly missing five workers on the wharf below. “This was seconds ... More >>
$844K Grants – Biggest Ever Increase In Funding To Build ‘safer Boating Culture’
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 10:46 am | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ has announced $844,249 in funding for 22 safer boating initiatives throughout New Zealand – the most ever distributed – with the aim to reduce recreational boating fatalities and injuries. Maritime NZ Director, Keith Manch said Maritime ... More >>
$54,000 Fine And Reparation After Fall From Ship
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 9:05 am | Maritime New Zealand
The Tauranga District Court has fined Singapore-based China Navigation Company PTE Limited $24,000 and ordered it to pay reparations of $30,000 after a stevedore was seriously injured when he fell from one of the company’s ships in Tauranga. China ... More >>
Log Carrier To Remain In Safe Anchorage Overnight
Monday, 6 July 2020, 4:15 pm | Maritime New Zealand
The log carrier involved in an incident at Port of Tauranga this morning, Funing-9690913 , will remain at its safe anchorage outside the harbour overnight. Maritime NZ Deputy Director Safety and Response Systems, Nigel Clifford, said it is hoped divers can ... More >>
Port Of Tauranga Update About Log Carrier Incident
Monday, 6 July 2020, 11:58 am | Maritime New Zealand
The log carrier that lost power at the entrance to Port of Tauranga this morning is now safely anchored in deep water outside Tauranga Harbour. Port of Tauranga is now open for shipping. The Funing ’s propeller and rudder will be inspected ... More >>
Log Carrier Incident At Port Of Tauranga
Monday, 6 July 2020, 7:43 am | Maritime New Zealand
A Singaporean-registered log carrier, Funing-9690913 , has lost engine power in the shipping channel at Port of Tauranga between Mauao (Mount Manganui) and Matakana Island. The vessel has dropped anchors and is holding itself in position. Two tugs ... More >>
Up To $1.2 Billion Insurance Cover For Marine Oil Spills
Thursday, 11 June 2020, 3:31 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ has published guidelines about a major increase required in insurance cover or other financial security for marine oil spills from offshore installations. Amendments to the Marine Protection Rules Part 102 now require owners of offshore ... More >>