Port of Tauranga buys $37.2 mln property to expand South Auckland operations

Port of Tauranga buys $37.2 mln property to expand South Auckland operations
Aug 12 (BusinessDesk) - Port of Tauranga, the country’s biggest export port, has spent $37.2 million buying property in Onehunga to expand its inland port operations in South Auckland. The 6.8 hectare property is adjacent to Port of Tauranga’s MetroPort inland operation, and includes three warehouses, an office building and two hectares of land earmarked for future development, chief executive Mark Cairns said in a statement. The inland port already handles more than 180,000 twenty foot equivalent containers (TEUs) and has “significant capac...