{"id":77583,"date":"2025-10-14T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77583\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:12:06","slug":"new-zealands-kiwirail-sells-ferry-aratere-for-scrapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77583\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s KiwiRail sells ferry Aratere for scrapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aratere was taken out of service following a <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/cook-strait-ferry-runs-aground-near-south-island-new-zealand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grounding incident<\/a> that occurred near New Zealand&#8217;s South Island on June 21, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry was eventually refloated. However, Maritime New Zealand later <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/charges-filed-against-new-zealand-ferry-operator-over-2024-grounding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged<\/a> KiwiRail with violating the New Zealand Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 due to the company&#8217;s failure to keep the crew and the passengers safe while on board the ferry during and after the grounding.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline of Aratere&#8217;s grounding, as outlined in an interim report published by the Transport Accident Investigation Commission of New Zealand late last year, can be read <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/new-zealand-accident-investigators-release-interim-report-on-ferry-grounding-near-south-island\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aratere was taken out of service following a grounding incident that occurred near New Zealand&#8217;s South Island on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[60338,2300,10116,2344,17747,111,43,139,69,2659],"class_list":{"0":"post-77583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-aratere","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-incidents","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-kiwirail","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-oceania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77583","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=77583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}