Kotahi 取引，協定 重要な to Tauranga port growth
Port of Tauranga will 支える 年次の コンテナ 容積／容量s by eight to 10 per cent after its を取り引きする the Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms-led 兵たん業務 company Kotahi led to it winning a slot in Maersk's Southern 星／主役にする service from Ports of Auckland.
The Southern 星／主役にする service is a rotation that runs between Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas port, Singapore, Brisbane, Tauranga, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers.
Based on 現在の 容積／容量s, it will 追加する about 70,000 TEUs (twenty foot 同等（の） 部隊s) a year at Tauranga, the port company said in a 声明 on Thursday.
It 代表するs an 8.3 per cent 伸び（る） on the 848,384 TEUs Port of Tauranga 転換d in the 2013 財政上の year and 固く結び付けるs its place as New Zealand's biggest コンテナ port.
"The driver to the 転換 is the 取引，協定 we 発表するd with Kotahi," 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 示す Cairns told BusinessDesk.
He was 気が進まない to comment その上の ahead of the 解放（する） of the company's 年次の results on August 21.
Kotahi in June it had agreed to commit 2.5 million 輸出（する） コンテナs to Maersk over ten years, giving the shipping company 信用／信任 to 計画（する） for the introduction of larger 6500 TEU 大型船s. It will put 1.8 million TEU of 輸出（する） コンテナs through Port of Tauranga over 10 years, and will put 重要な 容積／容量s through the Timaru コンテナ 終点 developed by Port of Tauranga over 10 years.
Kotahi will take a 49.9 per cent shareholding in the Timaru コンテナ 終点 and Port of Tauranga will 問題／発行する one million of its own 株 to K otahi and one million more as 容積／容量 grows under the 条件 of the 取引，協定.
株 of Port of Tauranga last 貿易（する） at $NZ15.50 and have climbed 154 per cent in the past five years, almost twice the 伸び（る）s of the NZX 50 索引.
