Port workers welcome port health and safety review

Unions have made a joint state­ment to express their uni­ty and deter­mi­na­tion to pre­vent any more unnec­es­sary deaths in New Zealand ports, and have stat­ed their will­ing­ness to work with the Government’s ini­tia­tives.

Maritime Union statement on Lyttelton port death

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Craig Har­ri­son says the death of an Lyt­tel­ton port work­er is the trag­ic loss of life of anoth­er work­er and has shak­en the mar­itime indus­try.

Death at Ports of Auckland

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is very sad to report the death of a work­er at Wal­lace Invest­ments steve­dores at the Ports of Auck­land this morn­ing Tues­day 19 April 2022.

Loss of coastal tankers a severe blow to New Zealand maritime industry

Unions rep­re­sent­ing ship crews says the removal of two New Zealand coastal tankers by petrol com­pa­nies is dis­ap­point­ing and has dam­aged New Zealand’s mar­itime indus­try.

New Zealand will then be com­plete­ly reliant on over­seas ship­ping to sup­ply our fuel – with no back­up.