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A hard-hitting report on the New Zealand port sector by investment bankers Rockpoint Corporate Finance suggests that the vast majority of the increase in shareholders funds achieved by port companies over the…

Port Otago has narrowly avoided its first serious industrial action in 21 years, with two unions issuing notice of an overtime ban after failed mediation talkes on pay.

Fifty years ago the wharves of Australia and New Zealands ports were lined with goods almost exclusively headed for and received from the Mother Country, namely the British Isles.

The coastal shippingnetwork that bound New Zealands ports together fifty years ago wasstruck a severe blow following the introduction of the MaritimeTransport Act in 1994.

An aerial view of most Australian and NewZealand ports 50 years ago would have revealed a profusion of narrowtimber wharves lining river banks and copious finger piers protrudinginto harbours and bays.