{"id":3545,"date":"2012-03-26T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/03\/26\/tauranga-reaches-saturation-point\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:13:00","slug":"tauranga-reaches-saturation-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/03\/26\/tauranga-reaches-saturation-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga reaches saturation point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The port company said it has been forced to adopt the policy, among various other measures, in order to restore productivity levels to services already committed to scheduled visits.<\/p>\n<p>Port of Tauranga commercial manager Graeme Marshall said: \u201cOur \u2018can do\u2019 attitude has truly been tested. We have reached saturation point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the week commencing March 5, the Tauranga Container Terminal handled a record 20,200 teu compared with the normal 11,000-13,000 teu.<\/p>\n<p>Average productivity dropped to 30.3 moves per crane per hour compared with the normal 35.5-plus due to limits on yard space, labour supply and cancellation of trains carrying export containers from MetroPort.<\/p>\n<p>MetroPort averaged 160% yard utilisation, peaking at 220%, with truck turn-times at both MetroPort and the TCT extending considerably. Reefer containers on power peaked at almost 1,600 requiring 200 to be placed on generators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Tauranga has announced it can no longer accept unscheduled calls from vessels wishing to bypass Ports of Auckland as that port\u2019s ongoing industrial dispute stretches it beyond capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}