by Murray Horton
Watchdog 112 (August 2006) ran a very detailed cover story on the successful campaign to stop the Christchurch City Council from selling off the Lyttelton Port Company (LPC) to Hutchison Port Holdings of Hong Kong – “Lyttelton Port Company Sale Dead In The Water: We’ve Won The Battle, But Not Yet The War To Keep Our Port Publicâ€, by Murray Horton, which can be read online at http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/12/01.htm Continue reading
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By Otago Daily Times Business Reporter Simon Hartley
A merger proposal between arch-rivals Port Otago and listed Lyttelton Port, of Christchurch, is likely to be on the table this year, with the Dunedin company keen for talks to begin in coming months. Continue reading
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10405562
By Martin Johnston
Auckland’s hard-fought public ownership of its port company faces being partially reversed through a merger with its Tauranga competitor. Continue reading
The Keep Our Port Public coalition (KOPP) has recently closed a petition, which gathered nearly 3,000 signatures, calling on the Christchurch City Council not to sell any of the Lyttelton Port Company to Hutchison Port Holdings Ltd of Hong Kong or any other foreign or New Zealand company, and for the Council to commit to keeping the Port Company in 100% public ownership. Continue reading
You are invited to the inaugural public meeting of the Keep Our Port Public Otago Branch. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3597537a11,00.html
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading