Reach, stability and power
The southern Kaingaroa Forest, south of the Napier Taupo Highway is an area of extremes with annual snowfall, bitter frosts, blizzards, heavy fog, dangerously cold wind chill and heavy rain as clouds step up off the lake, rutting out the pumice-based roads. Then the summers can be almost desert-like and turn the place into a dust bowl. Sometimes the deep bulldust from ground-up pumice requires four-wheel drive to get moving on the main arterial routes and passing doubles require light vehicles to stop in the ensuing white-out. S...
NZ Logger Feature Sections October 22
Mill Power
Separated by World War 1, two brothers (Jonnie and Norman Sutherland) nonetheless shared the same dream – to start producing lumber after the war. While one was sadly ...
Above and beyond
Early on a mid-June morning Neville Green was taking a pre-load of logs south on State Highway 35 from his Tolaga Bay home to the Eastland Port in Gisborne. It’s a fam...
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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