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MetroPack offers efficient new service for Auckland importers and exporters
Port of Tauranga has launched a new container packing and unpacking facility for Auckland-based importers and exporters.
MetroPack utilises the proximity of the MetroPort inland port next door, as well as the expertise of Port of Tauranga associate companies Tapper Transport Limited and C3 Limited, to offer unrivalled efficiencies for shippers.
"MetroPack is in a building right next door to MetroPort, which is connected by rail to our container terminal at Tauranga. It's a great opportunity for our customers to eliminate traffic delays and remove inefficiencies from supply chains," says Chief Executive, Mark Cairns.
The first customer is long-term strategic partner Carter Holt Harvey Lodestar, which will use MetroPack for the storage and packing of CHH Penrose Mill product and CHH northern mills sawn timber and LPL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) exports.
Lodestar General Manager, Murray Horne, says MetroPack was selected on the basis of an open market, competitive tender process.
"It offers us strategic advantages through its location and sustainable access, via a range of transport modes, to our key export points within the North Island," he says.
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"MetroPack enables us to further minimise logistics risk and maintain essential access to key CHH export markets."
Mark Cairns says the establishment of MetroPack offers opportunities for other customers also.
"We can utilise our strengths as well as those of our partners, Tapper Transport and C3," he says. "Our aim is to give our customers the most efficient ways of handling their supply chains."
C3 Limited is New Zealand's largest on-wharf logistics company, with extensive experience in marshalling, stevedoring, warehousing and wharf cartage, and is a market leader in tailoring product handling solutions for exporters and importers. Tapper Transport, which was acquired by Port of Tauranga in March last year, is the country's largest container transport company, with a freight station connected by rail to the container terminals at Ports of Auckland and Port of Tauranga.
MetroPack is leasing an existing building at Gateside, adjacent to MetroPort and close to Tapper Transport's freight hub as well as Carter Holt Harvey's Penrose paper manufacturing site. Additional facilities will be built for MetroPack as required.
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