One of the world’s largest shipping lines is set to transport kiwifruit out of Northland.
The Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company will move kiwifruit to Singapore through a new service starting at Marsden Point’s Northport, the NZ Herald reports.
It is estimated this will take around 500 heavy vehicles off the road where kiwifruit is currently trucked from Kerikeri to Auckland and then taken to the Port of Tauranga by rail and distributed overseas.
Northland produces around three and a half million trays of kiwifruit a year and is worth around $40 million.
The new shipping service will be trialled in May, the NZ Herald reports.
