Havre of Auckland hiring more administrator to help with ‘unprecedented’ demand basically ships wait eight days previous being processed

About 19 ships could be seen at spine in the Hauraki Gulf this morning once they wait to be processed by the Locations of Auckland. Photo / Niki Bezzant

A photo includes emerged showing the scale of the backlog of ships waiting to get into Plug-ins of Auckland this morning as unprecedented and unexpected demand sees bottle ships stuck at sea by using goods for an average of 7 days.

Equal to 11 container ships were attached in the Hauraki Gulf waiting to always be processed at Ports of Auckland at the weekend, but Ports associated with Auckland general manager of communications Matt Ball said that had correct reduced to six.

The ships currently attached are one bulk carrier, people car ship and four container ships carrying a wide range of goods which could quite likely include some Christmas presents.

All three upper South Island ports were busy and as a result there were a further five ships into anchor waiting to go into Northport near Whangarei and five waiting to go into Tauranga, Ball claimed.

Yesterday the biggest planting container ship to ever berth into Northport, the 261m-long Constantinos S carrying 1340 containers, arrived . Up to 1000 trucks – voyaging either at night or during off-peak traffic times – could be were required to move the cargo between Marsden Pt and Auckland from The 24th.

Ports ture of Auckland had already recruited 1 15 people to help them process our own containers more quickly and hoped possibility one extra crane crew guaranteed before Christmas.

“Our biggest problem is that we do not own enough trained staff to handle a little more demand, ” Ball said.

It was also ramping up the use of its robot straddle carriers help move more freight.

Prior to Covid, obtained uncommon for Ports of Auckland to have any ships waiting that need be unloaded and on the odd case when it did there would be one or two at a time, he said.

“I think the most important queue previously has been when Browning Marmorated Stink Bugs were discovered on this phone car ships, which resulted in painfully large delays to car imports. So this sort of thing only arrives in exceptional circumstances, as we have this halloween season with Covid. ”

Ball said the holds off were not unique just to New Zealand and were happening worldwide.

Demand between China and the US had also adult by more than 20 per cent, as long as New Zealand was facing “unprecedented and unexpected” demand.

The demand was expected to keep working into 2021, with more than a month pointing to back orders from manufacturers throughout China waiting to be shipped.

Last month, the Herald was contacted by a number of frustrated contacts who told how they had been expecting between four to six months for sofas to arrive from overseas as vendors including Freedom charged impacts from Covid for slows at the ports.

Other retailers have also had to apologise to customers as the delays median their pre-ordered stock won’t happen before Christmas.