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January 2010

Industry News

Brash Calls for Port Rationalisation The ongoing debate about port rationalisation has had another jolt forward, this time from the former National Party leader Don Brash, who has come out with a firm suggestion that local councils divest... Read more »

Maritime Union Draws Privatisation Line Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) officials have made it clear that any move to privatise Ports of Auckland will be met with “massive opposition”. The organisation declared its hand in light of Local... Read more »

Liquidation for Rapid Roadfreighters Nationwide transport firm, Rapid Roadfreighters, was placed into liquidation just prior to Christmas leaving an estimated 250 people without jobs. Although undertaking three restructures during the past... Read more »

Toll Reports 2009 Accounts Australian freight company Toll Group (NZ) recently filed their 2009 accounts and some of the numbers are a little surprising.  For the June 2009 year they reported a loss of $36m compared with a... Read more »

Rod Grout Set To Retire After 25 years as chief executive of Pacifica Shipping (1985) Ltd, Rod Grout is retiring at the end of this month to take up a maritime advisory role for Skeggs Group.Rod started working for Pacifica in... Read more »

New Inland Port For South Auckland? Just prior to Christmas Simon Tapper at Tapper Transport notified their clients that for several weeks they had been quietly operating a shuttle train twice daily between Auckland port and the Southdown... Read more »