Green light expected for trouble-plagued ferry

Toll Shipping hopes to get the green light from the Maritime Safety Authority (MSA) today to resume passenger services on its trouble-plagued Interislander ferry Aratere.

The MSA banned the Aratere from carrying passengers on February 10 after steering failure on the ferry entering Wellington harbour with 190 passengers aboard.

Toll had several meetings with the MSA over the past few days and was confident it had met the authority's list of conditions, Interislander spokeswoman Jess Batchelor said.