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Kōrero: Otago region

Container terminal, Port Chalmers

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Container terminal, Port Chalmers
Dunedin won the battle to be the South Island’s principal container terminal in the early 1970s. The terminal opened in 1977. Its development had involved substantial earth-moving and reclamation at the Port Chalmers site.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Hocken Collections, University of Otago

Reference: S09-039c

Permission of the Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago, must be obtained before any re-use of this image. Further information may be obtained from the Library through its website.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – Industry and development since 1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22712/container-terminal-port-chalmers (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.