Late log boost for Napier Port

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A late jump in September-quarter log exports through Napier Port wasn’t enough to restore total freight volumes to year-earlier levels.Log exports in the period, the fourth quarter of the firm’s financial year, jumped to 717,000 tonnes. That was 9 percent higher than a year earlier, and 54 percent higher than in the June quarter when covid restrictions halted forest harvesting and prevented exports of other ‘non-essential’ goods.Napier Port is the country’s fourth-largest container terminal and the sixth-largest bu...

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