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Lyttelton callers boost volumes

19 years ago

Lyttelton Port of Christchurch is expecting calls from the weekly Maersk Line Pacific Island service and the currently fortnightly CMA CGM New Europe, Mascarene and Orient (NEMO) service will raise its annual container volume by about 10% to 200,000 teu.

With the port initially struggling to deal with the influx of volume associated with it assuming the role of Maersk Line’s northern hub port, truck queues had reached up to five hours.