Empty containers headed to South Island

Published: March 7, 2021, 6:50 p.m.

South Island exporters have breathed a sigh of relief after news more empty shipping containers will be making their way down to southern ports. Next weekend the international shipping firm Maersk will begin a new service carting containers away from the logjammed Auckland port, down to Timaru, Lyttleton, Nelson and Dunedin. Emma Hatton reports.