Auckland port likely to miss promised container automation start
16 May, 2021 06:00 AM
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Tau Henare, Shane Te Pou and Robert Reid from First Union demand the resignation of Ports of Auckland CEO, Tony Gibson, in light of the damning Health and Safety report. Video / Dean Purcell
Tau Henare, Shane Te Pou and Robert Reid from First Union demand the resignation of Ports of Auckland CEO, Tony Gibson, in light of the damning Health and Safety report. Video / Dean Purcell
Ports of Auckland looks unlikely to go live on its controversial container terminal automation next month or July as undertaken by its chief executive.
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.