Cutting back the number of New Zealand ports is a topic that surfaces from time to time, but it's not one the Port of Tauranga buys into.

Key issues on the future of Auckland, including Ports of Auckland expansion plans and apartments in the suburbs.

Port bosses express confidence mayoral investigation will vindicate their blueprint for further development.

Plans to intensify transport corridors and develop the harbour edge are on a collision course with expansion and container growth at the Ports of Auckland.

Auckland's port company is welcoming back some of the hefty chunk of business lost to Tauranga during a wave of strikes.

With more than 1.1 million passenger days spent in New Zealand, the country's ports have survived the biggest cruise season on record - but only just.

The Port of Tauranga says a decision allowing it to make way for super-sized containerships has ended a near four-year battle with iwi.

Auckland's Queens Wharf is too small for the new generation of bigger cruise ships and may need a $10 million top-up from ratepayers.

More than 600 people have had their travel plans disrupted by a computer glitch on Interislander's trouble-plagued ferry Aratere today.

Marmageddon was a coup, an insurance company sponsorship of the sacred All Blacks jersey was a near-miss, while the Government was on a hiding to nothing with controversial changes to the education sector.

Ports of Auckland has been ordered to pay $40,000 for deliberately breaking the law by employing contractors during industrial action at the port.

Auckland has a choice if it wants to open up more of its waterfront - let the port expand into the Waitemata Harbour or lose cargo to Tauranga and Northland.

Port of Tauranga is signalling another record profit and is frustrated at a new Maori court challenge.

Auckland Council is considering cutting the number of unelected council-controlled organisations from seven to four.

The Maritime Union denies claims it will lose its dominance in the Ports of Auckland dispute due to the emergence of a new union.

Quay St will become a "stunning" pedestrian-friendly boulevard within three years, says Waterfront Auckland.

Alternatives to Auckland's inner-city port have already been investigated and costed in a Ports of Auckland study released exclusively to the Herald.