Ten months after a giant earthquake racked New Zealand, the port in the nation’s capital, Wellington, has finally got two huge gantry cranes working again.
Temporary work on CentrePort’s 700-tonne gantry cranes have allowed the machines to return to pre-earthquake service levels, a CentrePort spokesman said.
Both cranes jumped off their rails when the earthquake struck and the land they were sitting on became unstable.
Only geared ships have been able to offload boxes at Wellington up until now, meaning a significant number of vessels have been forced to reroute to other New Zealand ports this year.
