{"id":595680,"date":"2026-09-10T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595680\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:14:10","slug":"lyttelton-port-incident-emergency-services-respond-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595680\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyttelton Port incident: Emergency services respond in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Emergency services are responding to an incident on a vessel berthed at Christchurch\u2019s Lyttelton Port. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Emergency services are responding to an incident on a vessel berthed at Christchurch\u2019s Lyttelton Port. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They said no Lyttelton Port Company staff were involved and referred to emergency services for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency NZ said crews attended the incident. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Two people have been taken to hospital. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Two people have been taken to hospital. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">They confirmed there was no fire on board the vessel, but they remained on site assisting Hato Hone St John.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The vessel, a Norfolk-branded cargo ship built in 2009, is more than 200m long and is currently sailing under the flag of Liberia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">It arrived at Lyttelton Port yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they were advised of an incident at the port at around 11.20am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTwo people are seriously injured with emergency services actively working at the scene,\u201d Senior Sergeant Hamish Keer-Keer of Canterbury District Command Centre said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">WorkSafe has been notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services are responding to an incident on a vessel berthed at Christchurch\u2019s Lyttelton Port. Photo \/ Anna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,293509,4487,50545,50905,15974,305,28750,78,671,270281,111,43,139,69,17097,384,29268,4491,1321,17093],"class_list":["post-595680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-berthed","tag-christchurch","tag-christchurchs","tag-container","tag-emergency","tag-have","tag-hospitalised","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-lyttelton","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onboard","tag-people","tag-port","tag-respond","tag-services","tag-ship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595680","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=595680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}