{"id":10910,"date":"2024-08-08T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10910"},"modified":"2024-08-08T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:37:25","slug":"interislander-ferry-aratere-damaged-berthing-into-wellington-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10910","title":{"rendered":"Interislander ferry Aratere damaged berthing into Wellington harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troubled Interislander ferry\u00a0<i>Aratere\u00a0<\/i>was damaged berthing into Wellington Harbour about 3.30pm on Thursday, Wellington&#8217;s harbourmaster confirmed to RNZ.<\/p>\n<p>There is a hole in the hull but it is high on the ship, and no injuries are reported.<\/p>\n<p>KiwiRail said in a statement that while docking in strong winds, the ferry made contact with the link span, the dock ramp which allowed vehicles to access the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>There was some damage to the link span and the hull of the ship.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--y05vHhE6--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1723093771\/4KLRDYU_Image_jpeg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"A small dent can be seen on the Aratere hull at lower right.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">A small dent can be seen on the Aratere hull at lower right.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There were 106 passengers and 40 crew on board, KiwiRail said.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger on the ship told RNZ there seemed to be a problem berthing this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>They said passengers were being fed hot chips, tea and coffee and were now being allowed to leave the ferry.<\/p>\n<p>They said cars are now disembarking.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.30pm sailing from Wellington has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Interislander ferry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/520286\/aratere-ferry-grounding-really-embarrassing-picton-locals-say\">ran aground on 21 June<\/a>\u00a0just north of Picton while on a freight-only sailing.<\/p>\n<p>It only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/522075\/aratere-to-return-to-full-sailings-by-august-after-grounding-as-picton-awaits-government-ferry-plan\">returned to passenger service at the end of July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interislander&#8217;s three ferries\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/520262\/aratere-ferry-grounding-just-the-latest-problem-to-hit-interislander-s-ageing-fleet\">were all built in the 1990s and have been hit by mechanical problems in recent years<\/a>\u00a0and there has been increased debate about replacing the ships.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>More to come<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troubled Interislander ferry\u00a0Aratere\u00a0was damaged berthing into Wellington Harbour about 3.30pm on Thursday, Wellington&#8217;s harbourmaster confirmed to RNZ. There is a hole in the hull but it is high on the ship, and no injuries are reported. KiwiRail said in a statement that while docking in strong winds, the ferry made contact with the link span, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10912,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions\/10912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}