It criticises what it calls the Auckland and Tauranga ports' public subsidy advantage. Yet despite a landmark OECD study on port city competitiveness finding city prosperity often directly fuelled by port activity, New Zealand ports have generally not implemented the OECD's recommended strategies to make city ports more effective. Auckland, Tauranga and Whangarei's peer cities have collaborated on city-port priority areas such as transport, urban development and the environment. This led to an imaginative look at how the port could evolve and so Rotterdam promotes itself as a port city driving its role both in the city economy and in the city character. The best answers to the Auckland, Tauranga and Northland ports' future lies in the hands of their owners and port leaders: looking overseas but working together.

Source: Stuff May 22, 2019 15:56 UTC