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The Marine Transport Association has written to the Transport Minister accusing the Transport Accident Investigation Commission of doing too little and sanitising the reports it does produce.
Marine Transport Association executive director Margaret Wind said for the past five years TAIC had been virtually non-existent.
"There have been a number of instances within our industry where we were hoping to see TAIC come to the party and we were thinking 'great ... they're going to thoroughly investigate this and we're all going to learn something from it and prevent further accidents', but they've just been invisible."
She said on the other hand Maritime New Zealand had been flat out.