Napier Port

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File:Hapag-Lloyd Cargo ship Badenstein 1974 in the port of Napier, New Zealand.png cargo ship MV Badenstein in Napier Port in 1974]]

Napier Port is in Napier, New Zealand, on Hawke Bay. It is the North Island's second largest export port by tonnage, and is owned by Napier Port Holdings Limited ({{nzx|NPH}}). As of November 2024, 55% of Napier Port Holdings Ltd is owned by Hawke's Bay Regional Council through its wholly-owned subsidiary Hawke’s Bay Regional Investment Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.napierport.co.nz/corporate/ownership/|title = Napier Port Ownership|date = November 2024}}

The port is connected to the rail network via the Napier Port Branch (Ahuriri Branch).

It hosts dozens of cruise ship visits each year.{{cite news |title=Port a place to harbour dreams |first=Colin |last=Taylor |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=11344622 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |date=18 October 2014 |accessdate=18 October 2014}} On 16 February 2008 it was visited by the longest vessel it had received at the time, the MS Queen Victoria cruise ship belonging to Cunard."[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=10965982 Sea giant starts voyage to Napier]" Hawke's Bay Today. 1 February 2008. On 15 December 2014, the 138,194 tonne MS Voyager of the Seas visited the port, which was the joint 21st largest passenger ship at the time, and the largest to ever visit.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11374673|title=Cruise liner docks in Napier Port}} On 5 January 2017, the port hosted the world's third largest cruise ship (at the time), the 168,666 tonne MS Ovation of the Seas.{{Cite web|url=http://m.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11636611|title = Napier to host biggest cruise ship to visit NZ}}

Hastings District, as one of the largest apple, pear and stone fruit producing areas in New Zealand has an important relationship with the Napier Port. It has also become an important grape growing and wine production area with the fruit passing from the growers around Metropolitan Hastings and then to Napier for exporting. Napier is an important service centre for the agriculture and pastoral output of the predominantly rural Hastings District. The port handled 157,700 containers (roughly 9% of all containers handled by New Zealand ports) in the 2015 calendar year, behind the ports of Auckland, Tauranga and Lyttelton.{{cite web |url=http://www.transport.govt.nz/ourwork/tmif/freighttransportindustry/ft021/ |title=Container handling : Annual container handling statistics {{!}} Ministry of Transport |website=www.transport.govt.nz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101060352/http://www.transport.govt.nz/ourwork/tmif/freighttransportindustry/ft021 |archive-date=2015-01-01}}

A public poll was held in January 1885 on the decision to move the port from the Ahuriri spit to its current location, beneath Bluff Hill. The breakwater harbor was completed in 1886, and the container depot was established in 1994.{{Cite web|url=http://www.napierport.co.nz/port-people/company-history/|title = Our history|date = 21 November 2017}}

A new wharf, operational in June 2022 and officially opened in July 2022,{{Cite web|url=https://www.napierport.co.nz/napier-ports-new-wharf-6-wharf-te-whiti-officially-opens-for-business/|title = Napier Port's 6 Wharf Official Opening (Press Release)|date = 22 July 2022}} was constructed to handle projected volume growth and larger vessels. This was the port's largest ever single investment, completed at a total cost of approximately NZ$175 million. The port currently remains the fourth-largest container terminal in the country, processing more containers than Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth combined.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11636616|title = Harvest time keeps port booming}}