New Zealand ferry runs aground, forcing nearly 50 people to spend night onboard
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- A ferry ran aground in New Zealand during an island crossing. No injuries were reported.
47 people unable to disembark had to spend the night aboard in an incident the government described on Saturday as "very concerning."
Operated by state-owned enterprise KiwiRail, the Interislander Aratere ferry ran aground in Friday's incident near the town of Picton, on the north coast of the South Island.
The refloating of the ferry, part of a fleet that links Wellington, the capital, and Picton is scheduled for late on Saturday night.
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Our Govt blame Kiwi Rail. A state owned enterprise. Yes Government owned. Geez
This is the sort of situation where you don’t want your wife to ask how your day at work went..
You can't park there mate!
That boat should have been scrapped yrs ago
The boat , the power line that fell , and prime ministers broken plane made by Boeing or sumfing?
Does the media not know that a ship’s crew actually live onboard the ship? The only people that had an extended stay were the handful of truck drivers onboard.
How and why ?
How and why? The ships and infrastructure that support them are at/beyond retirement age. The ships themselves are constantly having issues (weekly).
They canceled the works that were going to upgrade the infrastructure and the two new ferries because the project costs kept increasing from 700 million to 3.5 billion.
But the ferries they were going to get were too big for picton and would have to be turned around and towed backward into the port for about 45 minutes just to unload.
@@charlesnol2187 thanks, I assume it was component failure then and not crew error
I blame Kiwi rail not knowing how to run any thing at all. They just suck the money and not deliver anything. Just change the top management. This will fix in no time. They are running around just like their ferries
Precisely correct.
Labour government had new ferries on order. This government cancelled them and paid millions not to buy them. National are not good at long term planning.
Did they not have a reverse gear? or bow thrusters? Looks like it was intentionally grounded, or nudged, for fear that.........?
Thankfully it wasn't a bridge.
That's almost as bad as the boat beached at 90 mile beach 😊
The ferry’s should be run by a private enterprise .. someone with some money
NZ can’t afford to carry on like this ..
im sure we have all had a car that has broken down,,, what did we do about it,,,, we got it fixed,,,,its the same thing really
We replace it when keeping it on the road costs more than its worth.
I blame the national party and nicola willis & Simeon brown for stopping to buying the new cook strait ferrys this is why we need new ferrys kaitaki is 29 year old & aratere is 26 year old & kaiarahi is 26 is year old this will cost the taxpayers more in repairs just buy the new ferrys
"Land ahoy"🧐
Welcome to Third World NZ where everything is literally "falling over" or "running aground".....time to pay, excuse the pun, the Ferryman folks!!
What really happen nz looks and sounds like a set up 1st the pm airplane ✈️ now this wreck 🚢 and the power outages 😒 hmmmm gamie
No money left to maintain the ferries. It´s all been given to the maoris.
No letter 'S', in the Maori language, Dick. If ya wanna insult a race, at least spell their name correctly.
Well our lovely Ministers for Finance, Nicola Willis reckoned that we didn't need a "Ferrari type boat" maybe, MAYBE there's a second hand Toyota out there somewhere 😂😂😂. It's a Government entity. Can't wait for the NEW FERRARI type 🚤
UTTER USELESS. SACK THE CEO.
ALWAYS EXCUSES.
GET CHINESE TO FIX .
KIWI RAIL USELESS. WASTE TAX MONEY.
🥳 Had New Ferrys lined up contracts signed this is after years of problems with existing Ferrys The new government decided no money for the Ferrys so Contract was broken.. 3rd World Service 🛶
the goverment said no new ferry because labour spent all the money and put us in debt,,now this goverment is trying to det us ready for the comming depression
I blame Kiwi rail not knowing how to run any thing at all. They just suck the money and not deliver anything.