Aiming to develop a plan for an efficient freight network for the upper North Island \u2014 including ports, land and rail and road networks \u2014 the Working Group has determined those ports are \u201ccritical\u201d to the country\u2019s freight task.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether they account for approximately half of New Zealand\u2019s total export volume and two-thirds of its import volume (in tonnes),\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cPort of Tauranga handles the highest volume of all New Zealand ports in tonnes. Our view is that Port of Tauranga capitalised on the public infrastructure provided to the Bay of Plenty region which subsequently has made the port a success. We will therefore be considering whether similar investment in Northland would provide similar results for the region and Northport.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the report noted there was \u201cgeneral agreement\u201d among stakeholders that the network was constrained and that there had been a lack of infrastructure investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a consequence, the network has insufficient capacity to handle increasing volumes of freight.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne consistent and overarching theme in the stakeholder comments was the need for a national, connected and well-functioning rail system. There was unanimous support, including from the road transport and coastal shipping groups, for a fully-functional rail freight system.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Working Group\u2019s next report is expected to lay out options and details to improve the supply chain, with its final report providing recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 21-page interim progress report has been published by the Working Group undertaking the review of Upper North Island Supply Chain Strategy.<\/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-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}