North Tugz, the company that provides towage and pilotage services in Whangārei Harbour, has welcomed a powerful replacement pilot boat to its fleet.

Some of Northland’s dairy exports are now heading overseas through the region’s own port in a trial involving Fonterra and Kotahi, New Zealand’s largest containerised freight manager.

The hearing into Northport’s Resource Consent application concluded on Tuesday this week

If, as the saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child” then Meridian Energy’s proposed  Ruakākā Energy Park can certainly count the local business community as willing villagers.

Northland businesses wanting to move freight now have the option of a new weekly container shipping service linking Marsden Point with Tauranga, Auckland and Lyttelton.