Tauranga port's first millionth container was a kiwi shipment
In his speech, Port of Tauranga chief executive Mark Cairns joked many shipping lines had asked for their box to be the millionth.
The honour went to a 12m refrigerated box full of "Zespri's finest green and gold prickly stuff", he said.
It was the 133rd box loaded on to Hamburg Sud vessel Santa Isabel on the afternoon of June 6. The ship was due in Keelong, Taiwan 11 days later.
"Everyone will think that was rigged, but it wasn't," Mr Cairns told the Bay of Plenty Times.
source: nzherald.co.nz
