Craig Harrison

KiwiRail has begun discussions to cancel a $555 million contract for an overseas firm to build it two new Cook Strait ferries.

Late last year the Government rejected a plea for extra funding on the… Audio

The Maritime Union is warning of potentially massive price hikes on freight if the Auckland mayor pushes through plans to privatise the port. National secretary Craig Harrison speaks to Lisa Owen… Video, Audio

Privatising the Ports of Auckland could hit local users with $70 million dollars in extra costs annually.

That comes from a new report commissioned by the Maritime Union of New Zealand, which looks… Audio

An international report on the Ports of Auckland has just been released, criticising its automation project as a failure "on every measure". Between 2018 and 2022, three port workers were killed in… Audio

Lyttelton Port is seeing a revolving door of senior figures with two board members calling it quits this week.

Chairperson Margaret Devlin and board member Don Elder are the latest to step down, with… Audio

Maritime Unions say Z Energy's jet fuel debacle has exposed a predictable weakness in New Zealand's fuel supply. 

Airlines are being forced to ration their fuel allowances at Auckland Airport, after… Audio

A damning report into the Ports of Auckland's automation programme has found multiple failings, leading to inadequate management and governance.

The report found the project suffered from poor risk… Video, Audio

On the eve of International Workers' Memorial Day the government has announced there will be an investigation into deaths at New Zealand ports.

Pressure was mounting after a man was killed at… Video, Audio

Unions are calling for action after a person died yesterday at Lyttelton Port - just six days after the death of Atiroa Tuaiti at the Ports of Auckland.

The Maritime Union, the Rail and Maritime… Audio

A person died at Lyttelton Port yesterday while coal was being loaded onto a ship; that is the second tragedy at one of the country's ports in less than a week. Lyttelton Port Company said the… Audio

There are calls for a national inquiry after another worker is killed on the job at Auckland's port.

The worker from private stevedoring firm Wallace Investments died after falling from a height… Video, Audio

Port workers are planning to deliver letters of protest to the captains of Russian flagged ships over that country's invasion of Ukraine.

The International Transport Federation is calling on all of… Audio

Panellists Clare De Lore and Fete Taito discuss a win for NZ cricket, the decomissioning of the Waihopai spy domes, and a major win in the Employment Court for wharfies. Audio

Encouraging people to talk to their own doctors, and making the jab compulsory, has led to a big turnaround in the number of vaccinated port workers.

Just last month the Covid-19 Response Minister… Audio

There's been a race to the finish line for port companies to get those stevedores and other port workers who go on board visiting ships, vaccinated before tonight's 9pm deadline. All port workers who… Audio

Health officials are scrambling to determine the risk to the public after more than 90 stevedores worked on a ship carrying crew later found to be infected with Covid-19.

More than half of the people… Audio

Craig Harrison is the national secretary of the Maritime Union. He discusses the case of the cargo ship with workers with Covid-19 at the Port of Tauranga.

He says the situation has been handled… Video, Audio

The Maritime Union believes more caution is needed before New Zealand workers are allowed onto foreign ships. Nearly 100 Tauranga port workers have been stood down to be tested for Covid-19, after… Audio

The Maritime Union is calling for health authorities to offer one on one consultations for port union workers who are vaccine-hesitant.

The union, which represents waterfront and port workers and… Audio