Story: Otago region

Container terminal, Port Chalmers

Container terminal, Port Chalmers

Dunedin won the battle to be the South Island’s principal container terminal in the early 1970s. The terminal opened in 1977. Its development had involved substantial earth-moving and reclamation at the Port Chalmers site.

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Malcolm McKinnon, 'Otago region - Industry and development since 1920', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/22712/container-terminal-port-chalmers (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, updated 1 May 2015