News & updates

Technology makes the wheels go round in transport. I've just reviewed some papers for the Heavy Vehicle Transport & Technology Conference in Quebec in May and there’s some really good stuff happening.

Transporting New Zealand is pleased to see Minister for Vocational Education Penny Simmonds has released an updated consultation document on the future system for vocational education and work-based training space. CE Dom Kalasih says it is something the industry has been closely involved with. “It was an agenda item on meetings we had with previous…

Transporting New Zealand is behind the Government’s announcement that it is reversing speed reductions on 38 sections of the state highway network. Consultation has also started on whether speed reductions will be kept on 49 other sections of the network. CE Dom Kalasih says these changes reflect this Government’s approach to a more balanced approach…

The death of a worker at the Port of Auckland has seen its former CEO successfully prosecuted. It's a wake-up call for all transport chief executives and senior managers. And here’s a key point: If you can make a change when someone is killed, why couldn’t you have done it before?

A recent opinion poll asked people about whether ferries should be rail enabled, and who should run them. People should always be allowed their opinion, but how useful are these results, and is public consultation really that useful on technical matters?