Lyttelton Port looks to 19th century for 21st-century operations

Lyttelton Port looks to 19th century for 21st-century operations
Lyttelton Port is experiencing more extreme weather events than before. (Image: The Star)
Greg Hurrell
Lyttelton Port Company wants to turn the clock back to 1875 on its operations, or at least to the natural health of the place it operates in.At a time when companies are finding mandatory climate reporting a struggle, the Lyttelton Port Company (LPC) is the first business in NZ to publish a nature-related disclosure report. There is no compulsion for them or anyone else to do so.There has been a commercial port at Lyttelton for 150 years and LPC would like to be running a port for at least as long as a shipping industry endures. It has an 1875...

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