Forest Talk

CentrePort has continued to perform strongly across all its business functions, including positively navigating ongoing economic challenges to report an unaudited underlying half year profit of $8.2m, representing a 22% increase on last year’s half year result.

According to CentrePort Board Chair, Lachie Johnstone, the result affirms that the port’s efforts in efficiency customer focus over the past two years have resulted in it delivering on plans f..... more

"Forestry was the only Climate Change initiative that was working  and demonstrably on track to achieve its targets, now stopped in its tracks," said past President of the Forest Owners Association Grant Dodson in June 2023.

He was referring to the collective and combined actions of governments of the time affecting investment, and changes to the ETS.

And the current situation is not good, says Jim Childerstone in this month’s feature on b..... more

Whakatāne residents had front row seats to a demonstration of heli-logging using a Black Hawk helicopter last month, as local operator Kāhu assisted logging crews on Valley Road.

Whakatāne District Council contracted the crews to carry out the tree felling on two blocks of pine trees growing on steep terrain overlooking the town.

The logging operation, which began in mid-January was necessary to prevent the risk of trees falling down and the hi..... more

When Bay Forest Harvesting’s Dan Mouatt first got into logging it was just supposed to be for a few weeks on his brother’s crew. He was given a pair of Canadian climbing spikes and sent up a bunch of old crop pines to rope them up so they could be pulled back. “I struggled to walk for a few days after that,” he says with a smile. 

That sort of all-in attitude has taken him far as he now runs two crews and his brother works for him. “Revenge is s..... more

Nearly every other developed country has less obstructive laws than New Zealand. They benefit from the flow of money and the ideas that come with overseas investment. If we are going to raise wages, we can’t afford to ignore the simple fact that our competitors gain money and know-how from outside their borders,” says Associate Finance Minister, David Seymour announcing Government’s plan to reform the Overseas Investment Act, making it easier for New Zeala..... more

Strong export demand and a rebound in imports have delivered a strong profit for the Port of Tauranga - the country's biggest port.

Company Chair, Julia Hoare, says the port is benefiting from emerging signs of economic recovery: "While the domestic economy remains sluggish, we are seeing what we hope are the early signs of a recovery, particularly in bulk imports and most export categories."

Cargo volumes rose 7 percent after last year's downt..... more