{"id":180027,"date":"2025-12-12T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:16:08","slug":"interislander-ferry-kaiarahi-turns-back-to-wellington-after-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180027\/","title":{"rendered":"Interislander ferry Kaiarahi turns back to Wellington after issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">He said they went into the Cook Strait to investigate the issues, before deciding to return back to Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Nalder confirmed there was no risk to anyone on board, and things are going smoothly as they return now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Interislander executive general manager Duncan Roy\u202fsaid the vessel is returning to Wellington so the technical issue could be investigated and resolved by technical staff based there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe issue became apparent as part of standard procedures prior to entering Tory Channel, and the return to Wellington was decided on as a safety precaution rather than sailing through the Sounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe appropriate authorities have been notified, and we will work with our passengers and freight customers to reschedule them,\u201d Roy\u202fsaid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said they went into the Cook Strait to investigate the issues, before deciding to return back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11157,2840,74,1863,4194,47117,679,114726,76,114727,111,43,139,69,14042,4248,61,1315,52148,664,32951,52],"class_list":["post-180027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-abandoning","tag-across","tag-after","tag-back","tag-cook","tag-ferry","tag-forced","tag-interislander","tag-issue","tag-kaiarahi","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-strait","tag-technical","tag-to","tag-trip","tag-troubles","tag-turn","tag-turns","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}