Ferry operator Fullers has been fined $86,000 and ordered to spend $300,000 on improving health and safety.
A Fullers ferry heading from the city to Devonport. Photo: RNZ / Joanna MacKenzie
Maritime New Zealand took the company, which operates ferries around Auckland, to court after one of its ferries crashed into Devonport's Victoria Wharf in 2017, injuring a passenger.
At today's sentencing in Auckland District Court, Judge Nicola Mathers fined the company $86,000, and ordered it to pay $62,000 in reparation to the injured woman.
Judge Mathers also included a project order requiring Fullers to complete health and safety improvements worth $300,000 at its own cost.
The 2017 crash followed a 2015 crash into the same wharf, injuring 19 people. The Auckland ferry company was fined $40,000 and ordered to pay $90,000 reparations in May 2017 over that crash.