Flip-flopping advice from several government agencies has given Port of Tauranga plenty of headaches this week. A red alert went up about a foreign-flagged ship - the Rio De La Plata - heading into Tauranga early last week. Maritime NZ was warned an Australian pilot had been on board who later tested positive for the Delta variant of Covid-19. After contradictory instructions from New Zealand government agencies, the ship docked in Tauranga, unloading started, stopped and restarted, then stopped with more than 90 port workers forced to isolate and get tested for the virus. Eleven of the 21 crew on the foreign freighter tested positive. All the port workers have returned negative tests. "It was very frustrating to have a number of govt agencies involved & a number of mixed messages. Frankly we can't continue to keep having these mistakes. Dare I say it, we dodged another bullet," Port of Tauranga chair David Pilkington tells Lisa Owen.