Meat and dairy exporters secure largest ever container ship for Asia run

Meat and dairy exporters secure largest ever container ship for Asia run
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie July 12 (BusinessDesk) - The Kotahi joint venture between Fonterra Cooperative Group and Silver Fern Farms is launching a new weekly service to Asian export markets using the largest container ship ever to call at a New Zealand port. The service will operate through the Port of Tauranga, where a $350 million port expansion and dredging operation will allow visits by a ship capable of carrying more than twice the usual number of containers seen on cargo ships operating through New Zealand. The new service will see sh...