Keep Our Port Public

You are invited to the inaugural public meeting of the Keep Our Port Public Otago Branch. Read Full Post

Dear Members of the Christchurch City Council:

I am president of the All Japan Dockworkers Union, an organization of dockworkers in Japan. On behalf of the All Japan Dockworkers Union, I hereby request that the City Council does not allow the sale of any shares it owns on Lyttleton Port Company to Hutchinson Port Holdings of Hong Kong or Hutchinson to operate the port terminals. Read Full Post

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By SEAN SCANLON
Two of New Zealand’s biggest maritime unions have attacked a controversial plan to sell Lyttelton Port of Christchurch’s business to a Hong Kong owner. Read Full Post

The Keep Our Port Public coalition, which is spearheading the campaign against the Christchurch City Council’s (temporarily thwarted) proposal to sell the Lyttelton Port Company to Hutchison Port Holdings Ltd of Hong Kong, has laid detailed complaints against the Council with both the Auditor-General and Ombudsman. Read Full Post

The campaign to “Keep Our Port Public” has come to Dunedin.

The inaugural meeting of the Otago branch of Keep Our Port Public is to be held on Friday 12 May, 12 noon - 1pm at the Green Party Rooms, 40 Lower Stuart Street, Dunedin. Read Full Post

The Keep Our Port Public (KOPP) campaign was riveted to read in Christchurch
Mayor Garry Moore’s letter of April 29 that plans to sell off the port of
Lyttelton were hatched several years ago. Nice of Garry to share this with
the nation – but why weren’t those to whom he is actually accountable told
first? Read Full Post

The Maritime Union of New Zealand and Rail and Maritime Transport Union say an advertisement by Christchurch City Holdings Limited (CCHL) in New Zealand newspapers today shows the business arm of the Christchurch City Council is “in over its head.” Read Full Post