Two Interisland ferry sailings cancelled

Interislander sailings have been cancelled this morning, due to a drawbridge fault in Wellington. Photo / Simon Baker

Interislander's woes are continuing as two sailings are cancelled this morning to repair a drawbridge fault.

The 6.05am sailing from Wellington and the 10.05am return sailing from Picton today have been cancelled to enable repairs to a drawbridge at the Wellington ferry terminal.

A cable failure on the linkspan connecting the port to rail ships yesterday delayed the Aratere's afternoon sailing until 4.17pm.

Passengers on those sailings have been rebooked on later sailings.

The delays come after passenger sailings of the Aratere were cancelled for more than a week earlier this month while engine problems on the newly refurbished ship were addressed.

All three ferries were also briefly out of action earlier this month when the Kaitaki was delayed by more than four hours by an electrical fault, and the Arahura was delayed by a power cut at the Wellington terminal.

Interislander general manager Thomas Davis apologised to customers for the latest disruption, but said the circumstances were out of the control of Interislander.

"Centreport is working hard to resolve the problem as quickly as possible to enable us to load and unload our ships,'' he said.