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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