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.