Port of Napier
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Hawke Bay
Hawke Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It stretches from the Mahia Peninsula in the northeast to Cape Kidnappers in the southwest, a distance of some 100 kilometres....
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Napier, New Zealand
Napier is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island. The population of Napier is about About 18 kilometres south of Napier is the inland city of Hastings. These two neighboring cities are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"...
, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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The port is connected to the rail network via the Ahuriri Branch
Ahuriri Branch
The Ahuriri Branch, now known as the Napier Port Branch, is a 2km railway branch line off the secondary Palmerston North - Gisborne Line, in Napier, New Zealand. The branch serves the Port of Napier, and terminates in a stockyard....
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On 16 February 2008 the Port was visited by the longest vessel it has ever received, the Queen Victoria cruise ship belonging to Cunard
Cunard Line
Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...
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Hastings District, as one of the largest apple, pear and stone fruit producing areas in New Zealand has an important relationship with the Napier Port. It has also become an important grape growing and wine production area with the fruit passing from the growers around Metropolitan Hastings and then to Napier for exporting. Napier is an important service centre for the agriculture and pastoral output of the prodominantly rural Hastings District.
External links
- Port of Napier website
- Port of Napier webcam
- Ahuriri website (Port Ahuriri, Napier's main port before relocation)