KiwiRail eyes Dannevirke freight hub

KiwiRail eyes Dannevirke freight hub
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans June 10 (BusinessDesk) - KiwiRail says a new rail hub proposed south-west of Dannevirke may be able to take 200,000 tonnes of logs off the roads. Officials have been allocated $400,000 to evaluate the potential for the hub to take trucks off local roads and better integrate freight flows through Hawke’s Bay. If approved, the state-owned rail operator will receive $4 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to develop the hub at Tapuata. KiwiRail is developing a forestry hub at Wairoa as part of the reopening of freight...

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