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The owners of the Rena have decided not to take their bid to leave much of the wrecked container ship on the Astrolabe Reef directly to the Environment Court.

The Government has revealed it wants Rena gone - except for the sunken stern sitting at the bottom of Astrolabe Reef.

Alongside a dock at the Port of Tauranga, men in orange overalls are busy preparing for their next battle in New Zealand's biggest salvage operation.

The fate of the wreckage of the Rena should be a straightforward enough matter. But the final chapter in the saga of the fully-laden container ship is proving anything but.

The owners of the MV Rena have unloaded a stack of scientific reports supporting their bid to leave much of the wrecked container ship on the Astrolabe Reef.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council speaks to media about the owners of the MV Rena applying to leave the remains of the shipwreck on the Astrolabe Reef off the Bay of Plenty coast.

The massive accommodation block of the wrecked containership Rena has seen daylight for the first time in more than two years. Salvors Resolve Salvage and Fire last night successfully raised the top half of the ship's accommodation block from the seabed suspended below the RMG 500 crane barge - placing it onto a transport barge.

A tiny hapu is calling for confidential terms of a deal worth up to $38 million over the wrecked container ship Rena to be made public.

Owners of the Rena have confirmed they will seek resource consent to allow the wreck's remains to be left on the Bay of Plenty seabed.

Editorial: The final outcome of the Rena grounding was far from the environmental disaster initially forecast.

An independent review into Maritime New Zealand's response to the Rena disaster, released today, has highlighted shortcomings in the agency's initial response.

One of the most lengthy, tricky and costly ship salvage jobs in history continues to drag on in the Bay of Plenty.

Two years since the Rena grounded, Tauranga beaches appear to have recovered with no recent signs of tar spots.

The container ship grounding on Oct 5, 2011 that became our worst maritime environmental disaster will be commemorated with a sculpture depicting some of its tiniest victims.

A sculpture carved from Oamaru stone by Bay of Plenty artist Peter Cramond is to be placed above the beach at Mt Maunganui next week on the second anniversary of the grounding of the MV Rena. The sculpture depicts the release of penguins that had been covered in oil during the disaster.