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CentrePort Wellington: Port Resilience Programme
CentrePort Wellington · Wellington
Strengthening and rebuilding CentrePort Wellington's wharves and facilities after the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake, funded by insurance and commercially rather than by the Crown. Critical for Cook Strait ferry operations and Wellington cargo. CentrePort has not published a single programme total, so no figure is shown: the disclosed pieces include a $63m resilience provision, the $38.6m Thorndon Container Wharf reinstatement, which takes the operational length for the gantry cranes from 126m to 261m, and a $15m sustainability partnership with NZ Green Investment Finance. The regeneration is underwritten by the $667.2m Kaikoura insurance settlement. No programme completion date is published either: CentrePort's FY25-27 Statement of Corporate Intent still schedules Seaview Wharf work and stormwater and debris management into FY27, and leaves the designed AQ 2/3 seawall repair with no programmed work in any of those three years, so no completion year is shown.
Data current as at 13 Jun 2026, when the pipeline was last checked against its source.
Key facts
- Region
- Wellington
- Sector
- Other
- Status
- Under Construction
- Estimated value
- Value TBC
- Indicative completion
- TBC
- Funding status
- Fully Funded
- Lead organisation
- CentrePort Wellington
- Election risk
- Safe
Election risk assessment
Commercially funded port resilience work.
Government priority alignment
MEDIUM: Port seismic resilience, commercially funded; fits a resilience lens.
Chronology
- 2016Kaikoura earthquake (November): CentrePort Wellington suffers significant structural damage
- 2017Insurance assessment complete; strengthening and rebuild programme designed, with a $63m resilience provision
- 2018Wharf reconstruction begins on the most damaged sections
- 2021Kaikoura insurance claims finalised at $667.2m, underwriting the regeneration programme
- 2022Major wharves strengthened and reopened; $38.6m Thorndon Container Wharf reinstatement progressing
- 2024Ground Resilience works complete and detailed planning finished for the AQ 2/3 seawall repair (FY24). Seaview Wharf Renewal stage 1A (seismic resilience) continues and stage 1B (berthing improvements) begins
- 2025Seaview Wharf Renewal stage 1B (berthing improvements) continues; CentrePort reports the seismic resilience scope as nearly completed
- 2026Seaview Wharf Renewal stage 1B due to complete (FY26). The AQ 2/3 seawall repair is designed but carries no programmed work in FY25, FY26 or FY27, and stormwater and debris management work runs into FY27, so the programme as a whole has no published end date
Source
CentrePort Wellington Statement of Corporate Intent FY25-27 (infrastructure performance targets) ↗ · CentrePort: creating resilience ↗ · NZ Green Investment Finance: CentrePort low carbon regeneration programme ↗