Avoiding Auckland – more delivery delays as ships steam north

Avoiding Auckland – more delivery delays as ships steam north
Contain yourself, the MSC Vaiga III at Northport. (Image: supplied)
Brent Melville
Further supply chain snarl-ups loom ahead of the Christmas rush as another container ship bypasses Auckland to offload at Northport.The MSC Vaiga III, a container vessel carrying goods from dozens of importers, berthed at the Marsden Point terminal on Monday. It is offloading almost 1,500 containers, or about 2,250 twenty-foot-equivalent of cargo, which have to be transported to Auckland.A Northport spokesperson said the Vaiga is the seventh vessel to have bypassed Auckland for the country’s northernmost port over the past year.Mediterran...

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