Reporting summaries
Last updated
19 December 2025
Includes summary data from 1 October 2018 - 30 June 2025.
Release schedule
We will release updates to this data six-monthly, in May and November each year.
What’s provided?
All summaries of notifications of accidents, incidents and mishaps that have been made to Maritime New Zealand in accordance with Section 31 of the Maritime Transport Act 1994 and Section 56 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 from 1 January 2021 will be released in an open data format in accordance with the New Zealand Government Open Data policies.
On 1 July 2024, Maritime NZ became the main health and safety regulator on New Zealand’s 13 major ports – both on land and on ships. Notifications of incidents and accidents on these ports were received by Maritime New Zealand from this date and are included within this release.
Text description details of fatal accidents are not provided due to active investigation or coronial inquests.
If an accident, incident or mishap is notified to Maritime NZ more than once, it will only be reflected once in the data summaries.
Historic summaries
Reporting summaries 2013-20
These summaries prior to January 2021 were prepared on a different basis. We have reviewed and released summaries of notifications between 1 October 2018 to 31 December 2020 and released these as part of the open data release. The original summaries are below. No further releases of notifications prior to 1 October 2018 will be made due to changes in the way these were recorded.
Our data usage
Data reuse caveats
These summaries are provided for information purposes only, and are not intended to be, and should not be construed as, evidence of any determination by Maritime New Zealand as to accuracy, cause, or liability. For these reasons the information is not suitable for statistical or analytical purposes. For further information see the terms of the CC-BY 4.0 International license.
The event descriptions in the summaries provided are not verbatim copies of the original notification. These are a summarised description of the event for analytical purposes. In constructing the summaries, consideration has been given to the reasons to withhold information provided in the Official Information Act. This may result in some information not being included.
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For more information
If you would like more information, or have any feedback, then please contact the Research, Analysis and Intelligence team at Maritime New Zealand by emailing [email protected].