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Exporting logs

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Exporting logs

At the Port Chalmers wharf 20,000 tonnes of logs wait for loading on board the bulk carrier Golden Star, for delivery to India. Although most primary-sector products are sold for processing within New Zealand, some, such as these forestry products, are sold unprocessed to overseas buyers.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 5 April 2007, p. 42

by Gerard O'Brien

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Ganesh Nana, Industrial sectors – Industrial structures, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23148/exporting-logs (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Ganesh Nana, published 7 December 2009.