KiwiRail not the 'fix it' answer to freight supply chain snarl up
23 Dec, 2020 04:25 AM
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Frustrated freight chain players caught in the ports congestion snarl shouldn't look to taxpayer-owned KiwiRail to provide quick answers by the sounds of it.
Bosses at Port of Tauranga, the country's biggest port, its
main export gateway and a big user of rail, are asking "where have all the trains gone?".
A month ago the port asked for 12 extra trains on the Tauranga-Auckland rail line as it tackles the problem of getting unscheduled import cargoes dropped off by ships avoiding Auckland's choked port back to Auckland - four have been provided.