A pocket rocket
You know it’s going to be an interesting day when you have to drive around eight goats sleeping on the state highway in the dark on the way to work. The older ones scampered out of the way but some of the younger ones were still rubbing sleep out of their eyes as we went past and began accelerating again.
A few hours later it was turning into a nice sunny day as we approached the Gaddum Construction forestry roading site just out of Kawhia near the Oparau Store.
The loggers around here have had qu...
NZ Logger Feature Sections May 2023
Special Feature: The Science of Slash
Forestry, a significant New Zealand land-based industry, has become a media whipping boy in recent times.Headlines scream: “Pastoral land covered in exotic pine ...
Looking Back: Log shoot of note at Kakahi
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica} Photographic examples of genuine log shoots in New Zealand are difficult to locate but historian Ron C...
Forest Talk
Big step towards green shipping
In what has been called ‘a game-changing move’, Norwegian forestry companies will be the first in the industry to ship timber on zero-emission vessels. This ...
CentrePort “cautiously optimistic” following strong results
CentrePort has continued to perform strongly across all its business functions, including positively navigating ongoing economic challenges to report an unau...
Forestry stopped in its tracks?
"Forestry was the only Climate Change initiative that was working and demonstrably on track to achieve its targets, now stopped in its tracks," said pa...
Heli-logging in action
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 ...
In full swing
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 Canad...
Overseas investment reforms
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 in...
Strong port profits despite cyclone influence
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...
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