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Port of Napier opens new wharf

News25 Jul 2022

New Zealand’s fourth largest container terminal has a new berth for container vessels....

Remote locomotive accident report

News15 Jun 2022

New Zealand’s KiwiRail has released the major findings of its investigation into an incident in September 2021 where a remotely controlled...

Maersk starts NZ coastal service

News1 Jun 2022

Maersk Line has launched a coastal shipping service connecting five ports in New Zealand in two separate loops....

Return to reefer vessels as container shortage continues

News11 Feb 2022

Port Taranaki in New Zealand has handled its first reefer vessel in 17 years, as three key NZ meat exporters extend their use of chartered r...

Tauranga considers automation

News4 Oct 2021

The Port of Tauranga in New Zealand is working on a plan to implement ASCs at its Mount Maunganui container terminal....

Cargotec & Konecranes claim “market dynamics” will preserve competition in straddle carriers after merger

News13 Sep 2021

Companies make the case to a competition regulator that a merger “will not substantially lessen competition in the supply of straddle carr...

Remote-controlled locomotive drives into harbour

News1 Sep 2021

A remote-controlled locomotive operated by KiwiRail has driven off a linkspan and into Picton harbour, taking a wagon and two tank container...

Auckland delays automation implementation

News1 Aug 2021

Ports of Auckland in New Zealand has announced that it is delaying implementation of its Automated Straddle Carrier project following an inc...

Tideworks live in Auckland

News14 Jul 2021

Tideworks Technology will install its Mainsail 10 system at Wallace Investment’s general cargo terminal at the Port of Auckland in New Zea...

Auckland lays out automation plan, CEO to step down

News20 May 2021

Ports of Auckland is planning to close its container terminal for 84 hours to complete its conversion to an automated straddle carrier syste...

Auckland takes a tumble

News8 Mar 2021

Container throughput drops 12% in second half of 2020....

Automation problems for Auckland

News30 Nov 2020

Problems are mounting with the Port of Auckland’s automated straddle carrier project...

Warning over box shortages in NZ

News30 Mar 2020

Transport operators say a prohibition on handling non-essential freight could lead to containers piling up at ports and a container shortage...

Maersk drops NZ coastal service

Fatality on MSC vessel

DP World eyeing Ports of Auckland?

Port of Napier opens new wharf

Remote locomotive accident report

Maersk starts NZ coastal service

Return to reefer vessels as container shortage continues

Tauranga considers automation

Cargotec & Konecranes claim “market dynamics” will preserve competition in straddle carriers after merger

Remote-controlled locomotive drives into harbour

Auckland delays automation implementation

Tideworks live in Auckland

Auckland lays out automation plan, CEO to step down

Auckland takes a tumble

Automation problems for Auckland

Warning over box shortages in NZ

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Victorian terminals align landside charges

Liverpool powers up solar array for government visit

CakeBoxx introduces FlexBoxx

ICTSI 9M2024 throughput, income increase

Kalmar reachstackers for Groupe Combronde

Maersk drops NZ coastal service

Fatality on MSC vessel

DP World eyeing Ports of Auckland?

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Victorian terminals align landside charges

Liverpool powers up solar array for government visit

CakeBoxx introduces FlexBoxx

ICTSI 9M2024 throughput, income increase

Kalmar reachstackers for Groupe Combronde

Konecranes CEO: Digitalisation and automation over time is a given

London Olympic Park to get rail freight terminal

FERNRIDE joins forces with JOST

ZPMC ships STS cranes to Italy’s Gioia Tauro, RMGs to Sri Lanka

Aidrivers partners with Rocsys