Compromise reached on Auckland port extension

Compromise reached on Auckland port extension
By Pattrick Smellie April 30 (BusinessDesk) - Ports of Auckland has offered to only extend one of the two wharves it wants to push further out into Auckland harbour in a backdown that it hopes will take the heat out of local opposition to its plans. After weeks of heated political argument, Auckland Council's governing body supported a compromise put up by the port company to proceed with one of two 100 metre wharf extensions and put the other on hold. The port company has resource consents allowing it to sink piles into the sea-floor...