{"id":574441,"date":"2026-08-20T03:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574441\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:24:22","slug":"new-zealands-lyttelton-port-to-invest-over-in-wharf-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574441\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Lyttelton Port to invest over in wharf expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Te Awaparahi Bay expansion project will deliver a 388-metre deepwater wharf, future berth capacity, and a five-hectare container terminal. The wharf will feature four new ship-to-shore cranes.<\/p>\n<p>LPC said the new terminal will feature semi-automated gantry yard cranes, helping the port handle more containers in less space, improving the speed and reliability of terminal operations, and supporting safer, more efficient container movements.<\/p>\n<p>LPC expects the project to be complete by 2031, by which time the port&#8217;s annual berth capacity will be around 850,000 TEU, ensuring projected volume over the coming decades can be managed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Te Awaparahi Bay expansion project will deliver a 388-metre deepwater wharf, future berth capacity, and a five-hectare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[283103,111,43,139,69,2659,283104],"class_list":["post-574441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-lyttelton-port-company","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oceania","tag-port-of-lyttelton-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}