Larry Williams Drive

Ports of Auckland want to move on ... after today announcing its abandoned plans for a new automation system.  It means writing off a $65 million dollars' investment, after years of delays and confidence concerns from the port itself.  Port CEO, Roger Grey has only been on the job 10 weeks but says it was obvious it wasn't working from the moment he arrived.  He told Heather du Plessis-Allan that the automation ... wasn't looking very autonomous. “Up to a thousand manual interventions in a single exchange of a ship so that just wasn’t a situation that we could tolerate and it wasn’t something that we could let run live.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.