Auckland Council's shares in the city's international airport and port facilities would be eagerly snapped up, say market players.

The sale of Auckland Council shares in Auckland Airport and Ports of Auckland looks set to be debated by councillors tomorrow.

Ports of Auckland is set to spread more into the Waitemata Harbour for cargo handling operations with a planned extension to the Fergusson Container Terminal.

A new $50 million dome-shaped silo for storing cement is due to spring up at Ports of Auckland next week or the week after.

The resignation of Ports of Auckland chairman Graeme Hawkins for health reasons gives Mayor Len Brown the chance to do what he should have done a long time ago.

Expansion constraints now mean the city and its port are about to head off in entirely different economic directions, their futures divided by widespread opposition, writes Anne Gibson.

Ports of Auckland's inability to expand could push up the price of cars and freight, while cruise ships could bypass Auckland.

My position is fairly straightforward. I'm pro business, want to see the port do well and believe that it's an important part of Auckland's infrastructure.

Recently emerged from obscurity at 81, this millionaire textile baron remains full of surprises - and that that's just how he likes it.

Editorial: Now that the project has been stopped the company should cut its losses and think again. It has reclaimed enough of the harbour.

Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.

Port opponents have won a historic victory and sunk the latest expansion plans involving filling in more of the Waitemata Harbour.

Ports of Auckland has stopped work on its wharf extension programme after a High Court judge ruled the consents are not lawful.

A complaint about an ad telling Len Brown and Auckland councillors to stop "violating" the city's harbour has been thrown out.

Aucklanders should learn the outcome of a legal challenge to the controversial wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland in the next two weeks.

Ports of Auckland has today begun presenting its case in the court wrangle over two wharf extensions to Bledisloe Wharf.

The temperature of Auckland local politics was not taken when two wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland were granted, the High Court at Auckland heard yesterday.

Labour MP and possible mayoral contender Phil Goff has joined prominent Aucklanders in a second open letter calling on Ports of Auckland and Auckland Council to stop port expansion.

Let's get rid of the single use plastic, reducing the amount of rubbish we are sending on diesel-hungry boats, writes Sam Judd. It would stop the harbour from filling up with plastic and possibly the extended port.

Len Brown’s office will offer more than $1m to fund a port future study that will take at least a year — not enough time to meet Ports of Auckland’s deadline.

Groups battling to save the Waitemata Harbour from further port expansion have found a powerful ally in the Auckland Council, the port company's arms-length owner.

Aucklanders who think it's safe to go down to the waterfront again after the "compromise" over the Bledisloe terminal extensions must think again.

The compromise between Auckland Council and the Auckland port company will satisfy neither side. Sooner or later, the company has to accept it can have no more of the harbour.

A large protest march against wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland has vowed to continue the fight to save the Waitemata Harbour for future generations.

For years, the big changes along the central waterfront just happened; they were the result of other peoples' decisions. This time it feels different.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown says he had to use his casting vote for a compromise over the port company's wharf extension dispute, in the absence of five councillors.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown used his casting vote to accept a compromise proposal by the city-owned port company to stop extending the shorter of its two wharf extensions.

Any further commercial expansion of Auckland's port would be halted under legislation put forward by New Zealand First.