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A hold has been placed on New Zealands second sea freight development funding round, while the Government considers whether changes are required to its policy statement.

25th March 2009

Freeze on sea freight funding

25th March 2009

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Australias Gladstone Ports Corporation has bucked the recession trend by creating new job positions in its own organisation and also stimulating employment opportunities in its wider Queensland hinterland.

11th March 2009

Gladstone mass job creation confimrs positive undertones

11th March 2009

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Northland Port Corporation chairperson Mike Daniel believes the Northland Regional Council should buy back all port shares and take the company off the stock exchange.

7th March 2009

Call to delist Northern port

7th March 2009

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Transportation and logistics company NZL Group has secured Ports of Auckland as the first major customer of its planned independent Sulphur Point Container Terminal.

28th February 2009

NZL signs Ports of Auckland

28th February 2009

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Ports of Aucklands lawyers are seeking leave to appeal a recent Court of Appeal decision to the Supreme Court.

27th February 2009

Auckand heads to supreme court

27th February 2009

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Ports of Auckland has issued performance bonuses toover 200 staff for achieving key productivity targets during the month ofJanuary.

18th February 2009

Auckland bucks downtrend to issue staff bonuses

18th February 2009

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Ports of Auckland set a new single-months throughput record of 59,585 containers during December - 2% higher than the previous best of 58,484 set in March 2007 and about 13% higher than…

9th February 2009

Auckland breaks container record

9th February 2009

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Transportation and logistics company NZL Group is planning to establish an independent container terminal operation at Port of Taurangas Sulphur Point.

2nd February 2009

Private Tauranga terminal plan announced

2nd February 2009

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Patrick Stevedores has ordered another set of fully automated straddle carriers, bringing the total at the Fisherman Islands terminal in Brisbane to 27 - all of which are being looked after on…

21st January 2009

Aussy operation extends automated fleet

21st January 2009

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Following a series of criticisms of the stevedoring industry, Australias Patrick Terminals claims that it now considers landside operations equally important to its oceanside obligations.

21st January 2009

Patrick raises landside game

21st January 2009

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Competitive trading conditions have seen Auckland Regional Holdings drop Ports of Aucklands book-value from NZ$587.8m (US$323.4m) to NZ$495.7m (US$272.7m). The Auckland Regional Council subsidiary also expects a NZ$24.3m (US$13.4m) dip in the…

30th December 2008

Auckland revaluation

30th December 2008

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A new port will be built if approval is forthcoming for a 30 million-tonnes-a-year coal mine in Queenslands Galilee Basin. Hancock Prospecting has studied Abbot Point and Dudgeon Point, to the south…

29th December 2008

Queensland port potential

29th December 2008

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Newly-appointed CentrePort Wellington chairperson Warren Larson believes the Capital Citys port is being overlooked in regional transport planning initiatives.

27th December 2008

CentrePort forgotten in regional planning

27th December 2008

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Lyttelton Port of Christchurch has returned a comparable 7.3% rise in net after-tax profit to NZ$10.3m (US$5.7m) and 9.2% increase in revenue to NZ$83.4m (US$45.9m) for the 2007-2008 financial year. 

16th December 2008

Good return for Lyttelton

16th December 2008

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An A$105m (US$68m) contract to build the port of Newcastles third coal terminal has been awarded to the Thiess company. The contract involves building a terminal of 33m tonnes per year capacity,…

13th December 2008

Newcastle contract awarded

13th December 2008

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Cosco Group global chairperson and chief executive Captain Wei Jiafu has signalled his organisation may be weighing up investment in the Australasian port sector. 

13th December 2008

Cosco moots Australasian port investment

13th December 2008

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Port Otago and Lyttelton Port of Christchurch have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a merger of their respective port operations.

12th December 2008

South Island ports talk merger

12th December 2008

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Five stevedoring groups have been invited to tender to operate Port Botanys third container terminal.

9th December 2008

Five in line for Botany concession

9th December 2008

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has slammed the uncompetitive nature of the countrys stevedoring industry. 

3rd December 2008

Uncompetitive stevedores come under fire

3rd December 2008

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Macarthur Coal has expressed an interest in buying a stake in one of Australias largest coal ports, say industry sources.

27th November 2008

Miners interested in share of coal port

27th November 2008