20 Sep 2024

CentrePort chief executive on the Bluebridge ship losing power

From Nine To Noon, 9:35 am on 20 September 2024

CentrePort's tugs - the Tapuhi and then the Tiaki - had to tow Bluebridge's Connemara back to Pipitea wharf early this morning, when the ship lost power.

CentrePort chief executive Anthony Delaney talks to Kathryn about how the retrieval was carried out by tugs not built for open water salvage, and whether Maritime NZ needs to bring in a new tug more suitable for bringing large ferries back to port.

Site operations at CentrePort in Wellington, New Zealand on Thursday, 26 July 2018. Photo: Dave Lintott / lintottphoto.co.nz

Photo: © Dave Lintott Photography 2018 / Supplied