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Agreements between Kotahi, Port of Tauranga and Maersk Line in order to develop the export New Zealand with ships from 6.500 teu
To the Danish company a traffic of export until 2,5 million is guaranteed teu in the arc of next the ten years
June 27, 2014
The logistic group New Zealand Kotahi has signed agreements of the duration ten-year-old with the Port of Tauranga and the company of Danish navigation Maersk Line based on which Kotahi will guarantee to the New Zealand harbour group a containerized trade of export until 1,8 million teu in the arc of the ten years with beginning the next 1° August, of which a meaningful quota Container will be enlivened by the Timaru Terminal South (TCTS), terminal for containers that is situated in the port of PrimePort Timaru, the southern region of Canterbury, and is managed by the Port of Tauranga, society quoted to the Stock exchange of the Zelanda.che New is controlled with 55% of the capital stock from the regional Council of the Bay of Plenty. Moreover the Port of Tauranga has been engaged to invest in the potenziamento of harbour infrastructures, in order to in the next few years allow the access with the port to portacontainer of 6.500 teu, and - on the base of determined conditions - to emit two million actions in two tranche, that they altogether represent 1.5% of the entire capital stock of the Port of Tauranga, that they would come acquired from the Kotahi, while this last one would acquire a quota pairs to 49.9% of terminalista society TCTS. At last Kotahi has been engaged beginning from to guarantee to Maersk Line in the arc of next the ten years a traffic of export until 2,5 million container teu next 1° August.
"On the wake of the strong increase in last the three years of the exports of coming dairy produce from the southern region of Canterbury - the managing director of the Kotahi has explained, Chris Greenough - it has been possible to restore the ports of call of container vessels in the port of Timaru and meanwhile to maintain remarkable volumes through the port of Lyttelton and to maintain over the long term ports of call of portacontainer in a series of other regional ports".
"New Zealand - it has emphasized Greenough - does not have a port for the great ships and now it is right time for the main operators to work together in order to realize in New Zealand an infrastructure in a position to receiving these great ships and all the value that they will bring to New Zealand. These ships - it has explained - will assure that New Zealand does not become peripheral regarding the largest hub of the Tasmania, what that would involve the 7-10 addition days to transit Time of the exports".
The managing director for New Zealand di Maersk Line, Gerard Morrison, it has evidenced that, thanks to the volume of guaranteed traffic, the Danish company has been engaged to activate from the next October a new service with ships from 4.500 teu for the port malaysian of Tanjung Pelepas, that will place side by side to the current Northern services Star, than in New Zealand carries out ports of call to Tauranga, Wellington and Nelson and touches moreover Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas and Sydney, and Southern Star, than scale the New Zealand ports of Auckland, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers and touches Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas and Brisbane. "Now - it has added - we have a traced road in order to work in New Zealand on the introduction of the ships from 6.500 teu of Maersk Line. These ships have a fuel consumption for remarkablly inferior container and will reduce the gas emissions greenhouse of the marine traffic in export of New Zealand of about 22% for container regarding current the average New Zealand of the field".
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The logistic group New Zealand Kotahi has signed agreements of the duration ten-year-old with the Port of Tauranga and the company of Danish navigation Maersk Line based on which Kotahi will guarantee to the New Zealand harbour group a containerized trade of export until 1,8 million teu in the arc of the ten years with beginning the next 1° August, of which a meaningful quota Container will be enlivened by the Timaru Terminal South (TCTS), terminal for containers that is situated in the port of PrimePort Timaru, the southern region of Canterbury, and is managed by the Port of Tauranga, society quoted to the Stock exchange of the Zelanda.che New is controlled with 55% of the capital stock from the regional Council of the Bay of Plenty. Moreover the Port of Tauranga has been engaged to invest in the potenziamento of harbour infrastructures, in order to in the next few years allow the access with the port to portacontainer of 6.500 teu, and - on the base of determined conditions - to emit two million actions in two tranche, that they altogether represent 1.5% of the entire capital stock of the Port of Tauranga, that they would come acquired from the Kotahi, while this last one would acquire a quota pairs to 49.9% of terminalista society TCTS. At last Kotahi has been engaged beginning from to guarantee to Maersk Line in the arc of next the ten years a traffic of export until 2,5 million container teu next 1° August.
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