Under the deal Kotahi has committed to provide up to 2.5m teu containers to Maersk for the next 10 years, starting 1 August 2014.

In a related move Kotahi has also struck a strategic ten-year freight alliance with New Zealand’s Port of Tauranga.

As with the Maersk deal Kotahi has committed to provide up to 1.8mteu in exports to Tauranga over the next decade.

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