New Zealand wildlife-tracking company Sirtrack has been sold to a Canadian company, making it part of the biggest wildlife telemetry company in the world.

Auckland's "integrated" public transport cards, introduced in May with a $1 million marketing budget from the public purse, will have to be replaced because they are not compatible with a new system for trains, ferries and some bus companies.

The latest attempt at mediation in the Ports of Auckland dispute appears to have failed to make progress.

Ports of Auckland plans to approach at least three outside stevedore contractors this week in a bid to break an 11-month impasse with its own workers.

Can the winds of Wellington help the capital city to join Auckland and become a marine industry hub?

Tait Radio Communications said it had completed a $19 million contract to provide a new radio communications network for one of the world's biggest urban transport systems - the London bus network.