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Tauranga Container Terminal & MetroPort Auckland. The following arrangements are in place for the 2025 Christmas period: 

Marine Services

The port will remain open 24 hours per day during this period and will provide piloting, tugs and linesmen for vessel movements as required. We would appreciate some flexibility in planning for the arrival of vessels if cargo is not to be worked on arrival.

Tauranga Container Terminal and MetroPort working hours are as follows: 

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The Government is making progress on transitioning New Zealand’s 3.6 million light petrol vehicles to road user charges (RUC), today launching a Request for Information (RFI) on paying for RUC electronically, Transport Minister Chris Bishop says.

“We want to hear from innovators and private companies on how we can make paying for road use as easy as paying your power bill or streaming service”, Mr Bishop says.

“Our transport funding system must keep pace with the way Kiwis pay their bills today. The current RUC f...

Scania’s autonomous trucks with cutting-edge AI-based technology are going to change how the world moves within the near future. Now, the company announces the successful completion of a groundbreaking challenge that redefines the boundaries of self-driving vehicle technology and human achievement.

The challenge involved two autonomous trucks moving towards each other in perfect sync to create a window of less than a second for a professional mountain biker to jump through the opening in between them. It culminated in ...

Roadworks and traffic plans have been revised, and it is confirmed that State Highway 1 Transmission Gully will be closed to southbound traffic this weekend.

The southbound closure will be in place from 10 am, Friday 28 November, until 4:30 am, Monday 1 December, weather permitting. There will also be a northbound lane closure on the motorway, which is expected to cause delays for northbound traffic.

Southbound traffic will need to detour via State Highway 59 while the closure is in place.

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To help keep young New Zealanders safe, variable speed limits are coming into force outside schools on state highways in Northland and north Auckland, targeting the times when children are most active around our schools.

As part of NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) School Speed Limit Programme, electronic variable speed limit signs will display a variable speed limit during peak school traffic times to slow traffic past the school, with the next group of signs in the region going live this week.

“Setting saf...

A strong message was sent to transport operators from the courts this week, with Ashik Ali sentenced to three years in prison for causing the death of Jonathon Walters. Mr Walters died in May last year, having been hit by a non-compliant truck after its brakes failed.

The presiding judge, Justice Graham Lang described the death as “an absolute tragic and avoidable event.” This death followed years of non-compliance on the part of Mr Ali who continued driving the truck which was in such poor state it had been barred fro...