A turnaround in the fortunes of the council-owned Ports of Auckland has helped explode the myth that companies need to be listed on the NZX in order to perform.

Ports of Auckland has hired top lawyer Mai Chen to help it in a row with the Auckland Council over measures to reclaim more of the Waitemata Harbour.

'This is bloody ridiculous," says Captain John Barker as he peers westward. I can see his point.

Why are some companies extremely successful while others operating in the same industry struggle?

Waterfront Auckland has already prepared for an New Zealand America's Cup win, having earmarked land on six separate sites for possible syndicate bases.

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.