South Port provides Southland’s largest storage facility, servicing a range of industries and goods.
Storage can be provided to meet temporary requirements or can be leased on a more permanent basis to provide a base for company operations.
South Port provides dry warehousing for a range of industries including dairy, forestry, stock feed and general cargo. There is 32,200m2 of dry storage capacity on the Island Harbour with road & top lifter access.
South Port owns and operates three cold stores, providing storage for up to 4,500 tonnes of chilled and frozen product. All stores have covered load in and load out facilities, and Risk Management Programme (RMP) to meet MPI regulations.
South Port provides open storage for logs, containers, woodchips, sawn timber, steel and more. The port has approximately 7 hectares (20 acres) of vacant land within the Island Harbour and foreshore areas currently available for utilisation.
In addition to cold storage, South Port has three blast freezers of 720 carton capacity each.
South Port owns and operates 3 cold stores on the Island Harbour.
All stores are open pallet storage for frozen products. No. 2 stores can be utilised as a cool store. The following provides an overview of the facilities available and their specifications:
Size | 85m x 40m x 7.5m clear height |
Volume | 25,500m3 |
Capacity | 3,000 tonnes of fish or meat on steel pallets |
Loading Area | Insulated and enclosed 15m x 68m with four loadout doors and three truck unload doors |
Refrigeration | Ammonia R717 |
Present Use | Frozen cartoned products |
Size |
40m x 40m x 7.5m clear height |
Volume |
12,000m3 |
Capacity |
1,500 tonnes of carton meat on steel pallets |
Loading Area |
Insulated and enclosed 10m x 32m with forklift access |
Refrigeration |
Ammonia R717 |
Present Use |
Utilised for frozen cartoned products or can be used as a cool store |
Eleven cargo sheds are available, as detailed below. All have good road access and are in close proximity to the wharf aprons they serve.
They are all of steel portal construction with partial concrete walls and partial walls and roof of aluminium sheeting.
No. 1 | 2,000m2 | Leased to Sanford Ltd |
No. 2 | 1,400m2 | Cement storage |
No. 3 | 2,200m2 | Dry cargo transit and storage |
No. 3A | 4,500m2 | Dairy product storage |
No. 3B | 3,300m2 | Dairy product storage |
No. 3C | 1,900m2 | Dairy product storage |
No. 4 | 5,900m2 | Stock food storage |
No. 5 | 5,500m2 | Stock food storage |
No. 7 | 5,900m2 | Fertiliser storage and stock food storage |
Intermodal Freight Centre | 4,000m2 | Dry cargo transit and storage |
