Strengthen our shores. Rebuild our coastal shipping. Sign the petition now.

Aotearoa-New Zea­l­and is an island nation depend­ent on trade to sur­vive.

But because our coastal ship­ping was dereg­u­lated by the Gov­ern­ment in the 1990’s, we now rely on mul­tina­tion­al ship­ping com­pan­ies to carry our goods between our cit­ies and bey­ond.

That’s cost us loc­al jobs and valu­able skills, it’s harm­ing our cli­mate by push­ing more freight onto our roads, and it makes us vul­ner­able to the whims of a few huge ship­ping com­pan­ies with no loy­alty to New Zea­l­and.

We need the gov­ern­ment to pro­tect and grow our coastal ship­ping and strengthen our shores just like the UK, US, Canada, Japan, and EU gov­ern­ments do.

We’ve been prom­ised real change that makes us stronger as a nation. Tak­ing back con­trol of our coastal ship­ping would be a good start.

Sign the peti­tion now.