Port of
Tauranga, New Zealand's largest port company, is to commence
dredging work that will allow it to accommodate larger
ships.
Danish dredging company Rohde Nielsen has won the
tender and been appointed to deepen and widen the shipping
channels from 12.9 metres to 14.5 metres depth inside the
harbour and 15.8 metres outside the harbour. Work will be
undertaken with a combination of trailer hopper suction
dredge and backhoe, and is scheduled to commence in October
2015 and will be completed by August 2016.
The Port has
recently taken possession of two new tug boats and announced
the purchase of a further two super post-panamax gantry
cranes.
The dredging is the final building block in a
$350 million capital expenditure programme over the last
five years to facilitate New Zealand’s exporters and
importers being able to access the blue water savings of
larger
ships.
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