March 11, 2009

The Mari­time Uni­on of New Zea­l­and says that any pro­pos­al to privat­ize the Ports of Auck­land would cre­ate a “per­fect storm of oppos­i­tion.”

Mari­time Uni­on Loc­al 13 Pres­id­ent Denis Carl­isle says those push­ing the plan were people out of time.

“There is obvi­ously a fac­tion out there who want to bring back port privat­iz­a­tion plans from the dead.”

Mr Carl­isle says that the privat­iz­a­tion strategy with the Ports of Auck­land failed in the 1990s due to mass pub­lic oppos­i­tion and recent attempts to part-privat­ize the Ports of Lyt­telton had also ended in fail­ure.