NZTD News

According to a news report from Jonathon Leask, the Selwyn District is paving the way for a new era in sustainable infrastructure, announcing plans for New Zealand's first-ever rubber road trial. The innovative project is scheduled to take place in January in the town of Glentunnel, located on State Highway 77.

The trial was revealed during a councillor briefing on infrastructure, where the council's head of operation delivery, Gareth Morgan, spoke about "exploring lots of innovations and trying to do things differentl...

The Government is progressing a strong pipeline of roading resilience projects in the South Island to ensure local communities, freight, and tourism operators can continue to get where they need to go, South Island and Associate Transport Minister James Meager says.

“The State Highway 6 (SH6) Epitaph Landslide Resilience Improvements project, a crucial project to help safeguard the road’s resilience, has had its investment case endorsed by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) Board, as well as $7 million in funding approved ...

‘Battery-electric transport’ unchanged as core of Scania’s sustainable transport strategy, but company keeping on top of other technologies and combinations as well. 

Scania is all-in for electrification but it is also continuing to leave no stone unturned to better understand all forms of sustainable transport, as a recent new research initiative from its Pilot Partner programme shows.

Earlier this month at Transport.CH in Bern, Switzerland, Scania showcased its collaboration with Asko Norge AS, a longstand...

National road freight association Transporting New Zealand has welcomed the certainty provided by Minister Peter’s announcement on the Cook Strait ferry project, saying it will allow the Government to focus on the timely delivery of the supporting port infrastructure by 2029. 

Transporting New Zealand Head of Policy and Advocacy Billy Clemens said that it was essential the landside infrastructure, including modifications to the existing Aratere berth in Wellington and a new dual-level linkspan in Picton are delive...

A highlight of last week was attending the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Annual Forum where I was one of several panellists on the Boosting Productivity in the Supply Chain discussion.  

Andrew Locke from Wellington’s CentrePort, who has by his own admission been in the industry for a long time, opined that one of the key changes over time has been a shift in the fundamental reason for ports existing. In earlier days a port’s key focus was moving freight, whereas nowadays the focus of some ...

This week NZTA fired a major warning shot in the battle against fraudulent driver licences. The land transport regulator has moved to cancel 440 commercial driver licences due to fraudulent activity. 

This is welcome news – no one wants unqualified truck drivers on our road system, the risks to all road users are clear. 

But it is also concerning for those running transport businesses.  First, that 440 licences need to be taken out of the system is a worry, particularly when all of them have been conver...