{"id":347728,"date":"2026-03-25T21:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:58:14","slug":"bluebridge-cancels-connemara-sailings-for-7th-day-no-timeframe-for-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347728\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluebridge cancels Connemara sailings for 7th day, no timeframe for fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bluebridge<\/p>\n

\nThe Connemara
\nPhoto: RNZ\/Anthony Phelps\n<\/p>\n

Bluebridge has cancelled a week’s worth of sailings on one of its Cook Strait ferries due to a technical fault, and there’s no word on when it’ll be fixed.<\/p>\n

The fault was found<\/a> on the Connemara on Saturday morning and it hasn’t sailed since.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the company’s website said it had canned trips up to and including Friday “while the ship awaits regulatory requirements to resume sailing”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Bluebridge owner StraitNZ, Will Dady, said on Wednesday engineers were doing everything they could to fix it ahead of the weekend.<\/p>\n

RNZ has asked what the problem is and how many customers are affected, but has not had a response.<\/p>\n

Are you affected? Email lauren.crimp@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n

The ship usually sails four times daily between Wellington and Picton.<\/p>\n

Bluebridge only has one other ship, the Livia.<\/p>\n

The company was putting freight and passengers on other sailings where possible or offering refunds, Dady said.<\/p>\n

“We’re disappointed about the disruption caused and apologise to our customers unreservedly.”<\/p>\n

Sailings on the same ferry were also cancelled earlier this month<\/a> because of a technical fault.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Interislander said vehicle spaces on its ferries was in high demand this month, but there was still room for foot passengers on many saillings.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Connemara Photo: RNZ\/Anthony Phelps Bluebridge has cancelled a week’s worth of sailings on one of its Cook…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-347728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347728","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=347728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}