NAPIER REVISES EXPANSION PLANS
Port of Napier has responded to local resident opposition and lessened the environmental impact of a development plan. Stage one of the expansion, which should begin next year, will entail replacing its current finger piers with a multipurpose berth capable of servicing two container vessels simultaneously.
Economic factors will drive the timing of the more extensive second stage, which will entail berth development on the western side of the port through a reclamation now more curtailed than initially envisaged.