Timaru port meeting resounding success

Audience at Port of Timaru meeting, 17 September 2009

Over 100 local peo­ple attend­ed a Timaru pub­lic meet­ing on the future of the port of Timaru on Thurs­day 17 Sep­tem­ber.

The meet­ing was called by the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand fol­low­ing a deci­sion last month by Fonter­ra to stop exports from the port of Timaru, which has result­ed in a mas­sive loss of work for the port.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says the meet­ing was a suc­cess.