Ports of Auckland council owner yet to be told of likely automation delay
17 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Ports of Auckland. Photo / Michael Craig Ports of Auckland has not informed its Auckland Council owner of any potential delay to full automation of its container terminal - despite advising others it will likely miss a time undertaking made by the port chief executive.
Tony Gibson in March said the controversial automation project, under way for five years at a cost the port and the council refuse to reveal, would go live in June or early July.
While a port spokesman late last week would only say the timing had not changed, the Herald obtained an advisory from the port which said there was a strong likelihood full automation would not start until August some time.
Ports of Auckland council owner yet to be told of likely automation delay
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Auckland port likely to miss promised container automation start
16 May, 2021 06:00 AM
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Tau Henare, Shane Te Pou and Robert Reid from First Union demand the resignation of Ports of Auckland CEO, Tony Gibson, in light of the damning Health and Safety report. Video / Dean Purcell
Tau Henare, Shane Te Pou and Robert Reid from First Union demand the resignation of Ports of Auckland CEO, Tony Gibson, in light of the damning Health and Safety report. Video / Dean Purcell
Ports of Auckland looks unlikely to go live on its controversial container terminal automation next month or July as undertaken by its chief executive.
By Felicity Coggan May 24, 2021
AUCKLAND, New Zealand “It’s what we said would happen. Bonus chasing, productivity chasing, it was all going to lead to disaster, and it has,” Carl Findlay, vice president of Local 13 of the Maritime Union, which organizes dockworkers at the port here, told the
Militant May 6. Two stevedores have been killed at the port in the past two years and others seriously injured.
Laboom Dyer died in 2018 after the giant straddle carrier he was using to move containers tipped and fell. In 2020 Amo Kalati was crushed to death when a container fell on him. In the past eight years, 13 workers have died working on ships or at ports nationwide.