The Port Of Tauranga

The Port Of Tauranga

Having 186 staff members at the Port Of Tauranga, there is a lot to do, starting with Logging. The Port Of Tauranga gets pine trees shipped by Cargo ships, transported by trains, or driven to them by truck so that they can store them then transport them to Asia and Tasmania. The Pine trees mostly come from a place in the South Island called Hineua Forest or from Gisborne or very rarely Asia. 

When you cut one pine tree down from a forest, the rule is that you have to plant three more trees to replace that one. You also have to make sure that the tree has been growing for at least 20 years in that forest. Once the trees get transported to where ever they are going to, they then get made into houses, furniture, buildings, fences, or building materials (they are the main ones.).

A place in Tauranga called C3 is the site that looks after the logs. Every year C3 takes in or transports 23 Million pine trees a year, also C3 goes through sixty three thousand Pine trees in one day. The staff at C3 work for forty five hours a week. 

Once the logs get to C3, they are stacked in a fenced area into triangle or shapes so they do not fall down, or fall on someone. Tauranga gets a profit of five point six million dollars every year from C3 and the Port together.