CentrePort resumes some operations

New 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.

CentrePort Wellington in New Zealand has announced that regular scheduled container services are to resume shortly, following repair work to make a section of its STS crane rails operable again.

After an earthquake left CentrePort Wellington’s gantry cranes stranded, an MSC geared vessel allows the port to handle some containers.

CentrePort Wellington in New Zealand has closed following a magnitude 7.5 earth quake.

CentrePort Wellington has suffered some damage in an series of earthquakes that struck the central region of New Zealand over the weekend.

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.