{"id":915,"date":"2023-03-10T05:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=18705772c41432f4f28e1b96f5fe2f8a"},"modified":"2023-03-10T05:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:05:22","slug":"what-has-caused-many-cook-strait-ferry-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"What has caused many Cook Strait ferry failures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ferry services across the Cook Strait are some of Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s most vital transport links.<\/p>\n<p>They also tend to be particularly prone to failure, as illustrated by a series of recent problems that have included failing ships and mayday calls.<\/p>\n<p>*NZ Herald*\u00a0Wellington-based senior reporter Georgina Campbell has reported on the myriad problems over the last 12 months and tells\u00a0The Front Page\u00a0podcast that the importance of this transport link should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Interislander ferry operates around 3,800 ferry services a year, transporting about 850,000 passengers, 250,000 cars and billions of dollars worth of freight,\u201d says Campbell. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nThere are two ferry services operating across this route &#8211; the Interislander and Bluebridge.<\/p>\n<p>Bluebridge currently has two vessels in its fleet and the Interislander has four after it purchased The Valentine for freight amid ongoing problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ferry services across the Cook Strait are some of Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s most vital transport links. They also tend to be particularly prone to failure, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}