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New Zealand’s ports are told to consolidate or risk losing out to the Australians in the battle for booming Asian cargo.

When Neville Darrow retired as chairman of New Zealand’’s largest container port, the Ports of Auckland, he issued the warning that the country’’s ports will need to consolidate, or risk becoming just feeders to larger Australian ports.

The reason, he says, is the growing pressure on ports owing to the concentration of shipping power in the hands of just a few companies worldwide.

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