Day: 4 November 2006

Last Kiwi crew on trans-Tasman vessel stage shipboard protest

Mem­bers of the Mar­itime Union are stag­ing a protest today on board a ves­sel at the Ports of Auck­land.

Mar­itime Union Auck­land Sea­far­ers Branch Sec­re­tary Gar­ry Parsloe says the crew mem­bers start­ed their protest on the trans-Tas­man freighter Rotoiti at the Ports of Auck­land Bledis­loe Ter­mi­nal at 7am this morn­ing Sat­ur­day 4 Novem­ber 2006.

He says the crew are draw­ing atten­tion to the fact that when the Rotoiti is with­drawn from ser­vice on 26 Novem­ber, it will be the end of the last New Zealand crewed ship work­ing on the trans-Tas­man trade.