Faced with delays in the North Island, Maersk is bringing in two ships to shift containers to South Island ports to meet export demands, but the Maritime Union said the company should be using New Zealand resources. The two Maersk ships will be operated by an entirely foreign crew, with a rotation across five New Zealand ports and two in Fiji. "International ships don't have to pay for Emissions Trading Scheme credits - that's carbon credits - whereas the local ships do. So the local ships are paying about a million dollars a year for these credits, which the international ships don't have to do," she said. "What happens the day that there are no local ships and you're reliant on international ships?

Source: Otago Daily Times March 04, 2021 06:00 UTC