Graeme Sumner: Lyttelton Port CEO on the port's planned $821m expansion

Best of Business · Aug 17, 2026 · 4m · transcript

Lyttelton Port says growing trade and ageing infrastructure have made its $821-million-dollar expansion necessary.

The project includes a new wharf and container terminal, lifting capacity to around 850 thousand containers a year.

Chief executive Graeme Sumner says the port's running out of capacity - with 92 percent of ships built today unable to fit in the current port.

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