{"id":354150,"date":"2026-03-29T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:23:09","slug":"ferry-shutdown-more-bluebridge-sailings-cancelled-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354150\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry shutdown: More Bluebridge sailings cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The Connemara usually sails up to four times daily between Wellington and Picton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Bluebridge said there were limited options for re-booking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">StraitNZ Bluebridge apologised \u201cunreservedly\u201d on Friday for the disruption but would not elaborate on what the fault was, just that it was taking longer than anticipated to fix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Maritime NZ confirmed it would undertake its own inspection of the vessel to ensure safety standards were being met, but did not provide a timeframe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Connemara usually sails up to four times daily between Wellington and Picton. Bluebridge said there were limited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135010,20703,47117,130,111,43,139,69,135011,7538],"class_list":["post-354150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bluebridge","tag-cancelled","tag-ferry","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sailings","tag-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354150","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=354150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}