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Road resurfacing and rebuilds are already underway as the state highway summer maintenance season gets underway in the Wellington region. 

The Wellington Transport Alliance will be resurfacing 35.6 kilometres of highway with asphalt and rebuilding another 5.2 kilometres. In addition, 13.9 kilometres of chipseal resurfacing will be carried out across the region.

Wellington/Hutt Valley - Roxanne Hilliard, Wellington Transport Alliance Manager, says drivers can expect to see significant improvements on State Hi...

Fruehauf NZ is pleased to announce the appointment of Aaron Smith to the Fruehauf Board of Advisors.Aaron is an accomplished executive and board member with extensive leadership experience across the petroleum and capital equipment industries, including trucks, earthmoving, agriculture, and mining. He brings with him a proven track record in strategic decision-making, financial oversight, stakeholder engagement, and organisational growth.

Throughout his career, Aaron has successfully led mergers and acquisitions, busin...

Construction on a new bridge replacement on State Highway 43 (SH43) the Forgotten World Highway will get underway this month, kicking off a raft of priority bridge replacements across the country, says Transport Minister Chris Bishop.

“In the next two years, 13 bridges and culverts right across the country will either be replaced or receive significant renewal work. This is an increase on the nine bridges and culverts which originally formed this project to replace priority bridges,” Mr Bishop says.

“Replacing an...

The 2024/25-2026/27 Rail Network Investment Programme has been finalised, providing $1.360 billion over three years with infrastructure investment that backs provincial New Zealand, Rail Minister Winston Peters says.

“When the taxpayer builds an asset, we expect it to be used for the benefit of our economy and not wasting away on the side of the road, which is why we are focussed on a no-nonsense rebuild of the railways,” Mr Peters says.

“Since the first railway was laid in 1863, rail has built New Zealand into a...

As daylight saving begins on Sunday 28 September, Kiwis may welcome the brighter evenings and promise of summer BBQs, but the switch comes with a darker side. Health data shows the sudden disruption to body clocks has measurable consequences: hospitals in Michigan, US found heart attacks spike by 24 percent on the Monday immediately following the spring shift, while a 2024 review of 12 studies confirmed a four percent increase in risk across the two weeks that follow setting clocks an hour forward. Road crashes also climb by...

Road freight association Transporting New Zealand is welcoming the Government’s competition law shakeup, saying that reform is needed to address limited competition in ports, airports, airlines, retail electricity and fuel.

Transporting New Zealand’s Head of Policy and Advocacy Billy Clemens says that as a highly competitive sector of over 5,000 individual businesses, 75% operating 5 truc...