Year: 2025

Women’s Day of Action 20 September 2025

132 years after women secured the right to vote in Aotearoa, we’ll be gath­er­ing again in strength and sol­i­dar­i­ty. On Sat­ur­day 20th Sep­tem­ber, there’ll be a range of actions across the coun­try.

Glaring Omission of Ports in Major Infrastructure Report

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is wel­com­ing the release of the New Zealand Infra­struc­ture Commission’s new report, but says it has a glar­ing omis­sion by ignor­ing the coun­try’s ports and mar­itime sec­tor.

Maritime Union Honours Merchant Navy Sacrifice

As New Zealand pre­pares to com­mem­o­rate Mer­chant Navy Day tomor­row, 3 Sep­tem­ber 2025, the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) is pay­ing trib­ute to the sac­ri­fice of mer­chant sea­far­ers in times of war, while issu­ing a warn­ing about our cur­rent mar­itime vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty.

‘Port productivity’ has answers that corporate interests would rather ignore

New Zealand’s sup­ply chain vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty has its roots in the lack of a nation­al ports and coastal ship­ping strat­e­gy.

Court Decision creates major concerns for Lyttelton port workforce

Lyt­tel­ton port work­ers are dis­ap­point­ed with an Employ­ment Court rul­ing that allows Lyt­tel­ton Port Com­pa­ny (LPC) to pro­ceed with a restruc­ture that will remove high­ly expe­ri­enced fore­men from the water­front.

Tripartite Accord positive step for Auckland

Mak­ing the most of Auckland’s port and water­front is a step clos­er with for­mal approval of a Tri­par­tite Accord between Auck­land Coun­cil, the Port of Auck­land Lim­it­ed and port work­ers rep­re­sent­ed by the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand.

Parliamentary Inquiry into Ports and Maritime Sector

In July 2025, the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand made a sub­mis­sion to the Par­lia­men­tary Inquiry into Ports and the Mar­itime Sec­tor, out­lin­ing crit­i­cal issues and propos­ing a strate­gic vision for New Zealand’s mar­itime freight indus­try.

Ferry privatisation would be a disaster

Sug­ges­tions of pri­vati­sa­tion of the new Cook Strait Inter­is­lander fer­ries would be a dan­ger­ous step back­wards.

International Day of the Seafarer 25 June 2025

On this Inter­na­tion­al Day of the Sea­far­er 25 June 2025, MUNZ stands shoul­der to shoul­der with all our New Zealand sea­far­er mem­bers. You are the back­bone of our econ­o­my, the unsung heroes keep­ing our nation con­nect­ed and sup­plied day and night

Concerns about ongoing Cook Strait ferry issues

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says the Cook Strait fer­ry ser­vice is strug­gling, with the entire Inter­is­lander fleet cur­rent­ly either suf­fer­ing break­downs, wave dam­age or being tak­en out of ser­vice for audit.