The GIA Partnership was proud to again sponsor the Industry Award at the 2022 Biosecurity Awards held in Auckland on 31 October 2022.

We congratulate the GIA Industry Award winner, Auckland International Airport, which took out the award for its programme Creating a Biosecurity Culture to Make Biosecurity Matter.

The award judges noted that Auckland Airport has elevated biosecurity to something the entire airport community understands and is engaged with and in doing so has created a culture and a team of biosecurity champions. Because Auckland Airport is New Zealand’s largest international airport, receiving passengers and goods from around the globe, it is a first line of defence at New Zealand’s air border. By supporting a strong border, the company is helping keep Aotearoa free from exotic pests and diseases.

Auckland Airport emerged victorious from a very worthy pool of finalists, and GIA also recognises the outstanding work of the other two finalists - Onside and Kiwifruit Vine Health (for their innovative network technology partnership) and Aquaculture New Zealand (for its programme Protecting a Promising Future: Leading the Way in Aquatic Biosecurity for New Zealand).

As a partnership combining all of New Zealand’s primary production sectors in partnership with the NZ Government, GIA is at the forefront of biosecurity readiness and response innovation. GIA’s Chair, Dave Harrison, congratulated all involved and said ‘We are heartened by the incredible energy and commitment on display and congratulate all winners and finalists of the 2022 Biosecurity Awards’.