Enough is enough for Auckland

Port CEO Tony Gibson said, “We’ve weighed up all the options and we believe this is the best decision for the future of the Port. Until now we have been constrained by practices which have reduced the Port’s competitiveness, and in recent month’s industrial action, which has lost us significant business.”

Auckland’s chairman Richard Pearson said that the Board’s first priority is to win-back lost business, retain current clients and put the Port on a pathway to success. “This decision will reassure the wider market and customers that we plan to achieve a sustainable lift in the Port’s competitiveness as soon as possible.”

Auckland will now appoint three different companies to supply stevedoring services at the Port and as a result, it expects current operating capacity to increase as has happened elsewhere throughout the globe when dogmatic and restrictive union practices have finally been overthrown.