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Trade Update – September

Food Integrity important in New Zealand too

Earlier this year a group of like-minded people came together to plan a conference on food integrity – speculating that NZ food producers would be as interested as their global counterparts. Drawing from their collective knowledge and connections they brought together speakers from NZ, China, Australia and the US.

Trade Update – September

Trade Update – July

It has been a relatively light month for New Zealand trade policy in terms of actual negotiations. But it has been an interesting month globally.

Collaboration of Exporters Delivers First Container Ship visit

Collaboration of Exporters Delivers First Container Ship visit

Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company and Kotahi, New Zealand’s leading export supply chain collaborator, are set to welcome the largest container ship to ever visit New Zealand waters capable of carrying 9,500 TEU calling at Port of Tauranga at the start of the peak export season.

Trade Update – September

Trade Update – June

Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)New Zealand played host last week to the latest negotiating round in ECFA. This negotiation is not (as much of the media maintained) a China centered agreement but an ASEAN initiated process and involves also the three...

Trade Update – September

Ocean freight disruption real risk for primary exporters

Some exporters from New Zealand’s primary sector are exposed to potential service disruptions as the downturn in global shipping drives consolidation in the industry, says the CEO of one of the country’s largest players in the logistics sector.