Going to POT

Port of Tauranga chief executive Mark Cairns says transport and logistics firm NZL Group "never has and never will" operate a container terminal on his company's land.

Cairns was responding to a press release from NZL yesterday. In it NZL, which has Tauranga's rival Ports of Auckland lined up as its major customer, said it wanted to accelerate the establishment of a container terminal at Tauranga after the port company told NZL its stevedoring services were no longer required.

My view is simple. "Stick to your guns Mark". This looks a little like a planned tactic to get Ports of Auckland interests onto the Tauranga Wharf.

And NZL might just end up the losers. No container terminal and no more stevedoring services. Unless they set up in the City of Sails.

This one I fear though, might run and run.