Ports of Auckland to go ahead with automation plan, cutting staff by 50

Ports of Auckland to go ahead with automation plan, cutting staff by 50
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Aug. 8 (BusinessDesk) - Ports of Auckland will go ahead with plans to partially automate its container terminal, which it expects will cut its workforce by about a tenth.  The Auckland port operator will shortly start work to install automated straddle carriers to load and unload trucks, which it says will increase capacity to between 1.6 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) and 1.7 million TEUs a year from the current 900,000 TEUs. The project will take about three years to complete and result in about 50 stevedoring jo...