Infrastructure

Port of Auckland

• Wynyard Wharf (also known as 'Tank Farm' or 'Western Reclamation', west of Viaduct Basin and mostly used for chemicals and liquids storage. It is to be turned into a mixed-use development and a park within the next decades)
• Princes Wharf (residential development and cruise ship terminal)
• Queens Wharf (proposed additional cruise ship terminal)

  Port of Onehunga

  This second harbour is a smaller facility near Onehunga on the Manukau Harbour, south of Auckland City. While it's much closer to the industrialized parts of southern Auckland and Manukau City, the access via the shallow entrance of Manukau Harbour, and the generally less extensive facilities mean that it's of much less significance than the main port, and is used mostly for reshipment within New Zealand, such as for bringing in cement from Westport.

  Chelsea Wharf

  Not part of the current POAL facilities, Chelsea Wharf, in Birkenhead, North Shore City, serves the Chelsea Sugar Refinery, which has operated since 1884. The nine hectares of the land were leased from POAL, but purchased by Chelsea in 1997. Ships with unrefined sugar (mostly from Australia) arrive at the wharf every six weeks, and as they generally exceed, the ships are legally required to use pilotage, managed by the Ports of Auckland's Harbour Control.

  Turnover

  Freight

  Visited by around 1,600 commercial vessels per year, as well as around 773,160 TEUs (Twenty-foot equivalent containers units) oer year (2007). The cars are mainly relatively new Japanese models, due to the very strict technical requirements of the Japanese road authorities. Due to the very strict biosecurity regulations administered by the MAF, cars (and many other goods) have to pass through a decontamination facility, which strongly increases turnover times. Each of the ships is estimated to add about NZ$ 1 million to the regional economy.
     So far, the largest ship to visit was the Queen Mary 2 in early 2007, which had to be diverted to Jellicoe Wharf in the freight part of the port due to its size. However, the largest one-day turnover came in February 2007, when the Statendam and the Sapphire Princess were due in Auckland to exchange around 8,000 people at the terminal, the equivalent of 19 Boeing 747 jumbo jets.

  Economic impact

  According to an economic impact assessment, a third of the local economy and 173,000 jobs in the Auckland Region are dependent on the port.

  19th Century

  The initial establishment of the harbour facilities in Commercial Bay and Official Bay suffered from the tidal mudflats that made establishing good wharves difficult. After control of the Waitemata Harbour passed to the Auckland Provincial Council in 1853, the Council did much work on improving the facilities, which included constructing the first Queen Street Wharf, building a quay along Customs Street and a breakwater at Point Britomart.
     After the Auckland Harbour Board was established in 1871 by the Council, further wharves were added and massive reclamation works were undertaken, eventually making Freemans Bay and Mechanics Bay lose their natural shoreline, while Commercial Bay (today the site of much of the Auckland CBD and the Auckland waterfront) was totally lost to history. The newly reclaimed land allowed the construction of a railway wharf and new dockyard facilities. New facilities were also built on the other side of the harbour, at Devonport, with the 'Calliope Dock' being the largest drydock in the southern hemisphere in 1888.
     In 1988 the operations of the port were handed over to a newly formed company, Ports of Auckland, by Act of Parliament. The change in management increased productivity, but also led to substantial cuts in the directly employed workforce. In the same year, volumes at the port rose 12.6% while profits, after deducting one-time items and property investments unrelated to the port operation, remained similar to 2006 (then NZ$ 55.9 million).Further Information

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