No safe harbour
What a luxury the concept of “any port in a storm” now seems. Thanks to the pandemic and Russian imperialism, it’s now “any place in a port queue – and you might get to berth eventually”.
Sadly, it’s in the thick of this supply-chain madness that the government is making a decision on how, or even perhaps whether, to replace Auckland’s long-overtaxed port as the country’s prime international dock.
Notwithstanding the current global crisis, the port is rapidly outgrowing its capacity, but for both environmental and populist reasons, its physical expansion is out of the question. Its freight worsens Auckland’s chronic congestion. And a
