Two NZ ports win funding for electric empty container handlers
NewsNew Zealand’s largest ports, Port of Auckland and Wellington’s CentrePort, will be the first in the country to invest in electric empty container handlers.
…Napier/Wellington to tie-up?
With a Tauranga-Auckland merger again in limbo and no visible progress beyond a memorandum of understanding between Lyttelton and Otago (Port Chalmers/Dunedin), attention in New Zealand has turned to a suggestion by Napier owner Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) of a possible sell-down.
Napier rates as New Zealand’s fifth largest container port and is currently expanding facilities to enable two containerships to be handled simultaneously with the construction of a NZ$47M second berth. Napier reported a throughput of 167,825 TEU for the year ended December 2008, of which imports were 75,226 TEU and exports 80,817 TEU.
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