Posts Tagged: Andrew Gaddum

Bringing home the buoys

Bringing home the buoys

An Eastland Port telemetric buoy weighing 300kg and normally attached to the seabed via a two-tonne concrete mooring block was brought in for routine maintenance last week. This pictured buoy captures swell height, direction and period data for the port and public to use. It was recovered using the tug Titirangi and work boat Turanganui…. Read more »

Three million tonnes of cargo shifted in a year

Three million tonnes of cargo shifted in a year

IT takes skilled wharf staff and a whole lot of collaboration to shift three million tonnes of cargo at a port short on ship berths and storage space, says Eastland Port general manager Andrew Gaddum. Eastland Port shifted three million tonnes of cargo in the financial year ended 31 March 2018, breaking all previous records for product across… Read more »