RESEND: Kotahi deal helps Port of Tauranga win Maersk's Southern Star slot from Auckland

RESEND: Kotahi deal helps Port of Tauranga win Maersk's Southern Star slot from Auckland
(Adds Mark Cairns' full name and title in third paragraph) July 17 (BusinessDesk) - Port of Tauranga will bolster annual container volumes by 8 percent to 10 percent after its deal with the Fonterra Cooperative Group and Silver Fern Farms-led logistics company Kotahi led to it winning a slot in Maersk's Southern Star service from Ports of Auckland. The Southern Star service is a rotation that runs between Malaysia's TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) a year at Tauranga, the port company said in a statement. It represents an 8.3 perce...