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Sime Motors NZ announced it has entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement for the sale of its Hyster New Zealand business to Adaptalift Group. The transaction is scheduled to complete on 28 February 2025. 

“When our parent company, Sime Darby Berhad acquired Toyota forklifts as part of the global purchase of UMW at the end of 2023, it had a downstream impact on our dealership agreement with Hyster Yale in New Zealand,” explained Michael Doeg, General Manager Sime Commercial Sales NZ. “We invested a...

The full road closure to enable this work will now begin on Monday 10 February. The closure will be in place for four weeks – between Monday 10 February and Friday 7 March.

Smoother journeys are coming for motorists through Waharoa, with resealing works getting underway in early February for essential maintenance of Sta...

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the most tech savvy person – my wife and daughter are much better than me at that stuff!

And technology hasn’t delivered everything I was promised. I distinctly remember being told in the mid ‘90’s that computers would mean there would come a time when I’d only need to work four days a week. I’m not complaining, but I work longer and harder now than I did back then!

However, I am a firm believer that emerging technology is key to improving productivity and that, in turn, is vita...

Kwetta, a Napier-based tech startup revolutionising large-scale electrification, announces a major milestone in its journey to drive sustainable transport. The company has raised $10.5 million USD (NZ $17.5 million) in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from Virescent Ventures Fund II, Icehouse Ventures, and others.

Since its founding in 2021, Kwetta has had a clear mission: to remove the bottlenecks in electrifying heavy transport by unlocking electricity grid capac...

New resilience work is about to get underway on State Highway 1 in Marlborough, south of Blenheim at Dashwood.

Contractors will be on-site from 4 February, with work expected to continue until 9 April 2025. They will raise the height of the road to minimise future flooding and complete drainage improvements. 

Wayne Oldfield, Marlborough System Manager, says the 500-metre section of state highway between Awatere Valley Road and the Awatere Bridge is prone to flooding.

“Making these improvements and incr...

Polling conducted by Talbot Mills on behalf of transport unions shows support for publicly owned rail-enabled ferries is growing, with 54% of New Zealanders now backing this option – up six points from last year.

At the same time, support for a privatised option has decreased, and considerably more people think Finance Minister Nicola Willis made a mistake in cancelling the original ferry contract than support her call. 

Rail and Maritime Transport Union General Secretary Todd Valster says the polling sends ...