Damage to the hulls of two vessels during the past week are the latest in a series of disruptions, delays and cancellations to Cook Strait ferries this year.

I didn’t realise quite how bad of a year our ferries have had, this is just embarrassing.

  • ooo_shiny@lemmy.nz
    4·
    1 year ago

    This seems like a key infrastructure issue to sort out. Didn’t realise that we don’t own our ferries!

    • Dave@lemmy.nzM
      2·
      1 year ago

      From the article it sounds like Interislander is NZ owned (by kiwirail, a state owned enterprise) but Bluebridge is not NZ owned.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nzOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      As Dave said, Interislander is owned by Kiwirail, and they own their boats, to the best of my knowledge. I didn’t realise Bluebridge wasn’t NZ owned any more.

  • Axisential@lemmy.nz
    3·
    1 year ago

    To be fair, a few of the ‘incidents’ listed are simple engineering issues, but yes, quite an eventful year!