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Road freight association Transporting New Zealand says that decreasing investment in the road network will lead to transport issues that fuel the cost-of-living crisis.

This week the Government said that, if re-elected, the previously planned increase of 12 cents per litre in January 2027, followed by a further 6 cents per litre increase in January 2028 and annual 4 cent increases from 2029, will not go ahead. Instead, there will be an increase of 5c a litre from January 2028, followed by three 5-cent increases every s...

State Highway 29 (SH29) over the Kaimai Range will close overnight for two nights on Sunday 13 and Monday 14 September, between 8pm and 3am each night, reopening to traffic each morning. 

The closures are required so crews can safely complete critical stabilisation works at the Ruahihi Bluffs, near the Ruahihi Power Station, and undertake essential maintenance activities at other locations along the corridor.  

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) Bay of Plenty Area Manager Sandra King says the work m...

The fuel excise hike planned for next year has been cancelled to help Kiwis with the cost of living and deliver lower taxes for New Zealanders, Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Transport Minister Chris Bishop have announced. 

“Fuel excise was scheduled to resume annual increases starting with a 12c per litre increase from 1 January 2027, with equivalent increases to road user charges. That has now been scrapped, with the next increase of 5c a litre now taking effect from 1 January 2028,” Ms Willis says.  .. Read More  

On Tuesday 1 September, the inaugural MITO Industry Summit and Awards was held at Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre. Over 200 senior stakeholders from across industry, government, education, and MITO’s employer and learner communities attended. 

Sturrock Saunders, MITO’s Chairperson, opened the event saying, “MITO’s Industry Summit is about bringing industry together with ambition and purpose—to exchange bold thinking, celebrate achievement, look ahead, and importantly, to uplift and acknowledge the vital work ou...

Straddle carriers are the large mobile machinery that lift, transport and stack fully-laden shipping containers into rows on the Port Chalmers Container Terminal. The terminal’s current fleet of 14 straddle carriers has an average age of 17 years. Ten are diesel fuelled and four are diesel/electric#. The 10 new Konecranes Noell hybrid straddle carriers will replace the 10 diesel machines, when they arrive in August 2027.

Hybrid straddles represent 90-95% of current world-wide straddle production, and the Konecrane mode...

The tender process is underway for the second section of the Cambridge to Piarere extension of the Waikato Expressway, as NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) keeps its foot on the accelerator on procurement for the Roads of National Significance project.

Cambridge to Piarere will support safer, more reliable journeys on one of the country’s key transport corridors, while strengthening connections between Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty.

NZTA Project Sponsor, Infrastructure Development and Delivery, Adr...