Kaitaki sentencing underscores need for new ferries

KiwiRail has been fined $432,500 for a charge under the Health and Safe­ty at Work Act brought by indus­try reg­u­la­tor Mar­itime New Zealand, fol­low­ing loss of engine pow­er on the Inter­is­lander fer­ry Kaita­ki on Sat­ur­day 28 Jan­u­ary 2023.