MAJOR DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR BROTHER AND SISTER LONGSHOREMEN FROM THE MARITIME UNION OF NEW ZEALAND AUTOMATION PROJECTS FAILS AT PORT OF AUCKLAND IN NEW ZEALAND

Port of Auckland, New Zealand

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR BROTHER AND SISTER LONGSHOREMEN FROM THE MARITIME UNION OF NEW ZEALAND AUTOMATION PROJECTS FAILS AT PORT OF AUCKLAND IN NEW ZEALAND

**Port of Auckland will convert 27 automated straddle cranes to be driven manually.

**The automated cranes would have replaced 50 port workers.

**The straddles were part of a failed automation project.

**The straddles will now to be driven by longshoremen at the port.

Please click this link for full story: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350189426/auckland-port-revives-machines-failed-automation-project

Thank you Erin Johnson