- CEO
- Derek Nind
- Full Time Employees
- 142
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Other transportation
- Address
- Island Harbour Bluff SO New Zealand 9842
- IPO Date
- Jun 30, 1994
- Business
- South Port New Zealand Limited operates New Zealand's southernmost commercial deepwater port at Bluff in the Southland region; it provides a comprehensive range of marine services including pilotage, towage, berthage, shipping movements, and procedures for international, coastal, and fishing vessels; cargo handling facilities for bulk, break bulk, container, and project cargoes with capabilities such as two mobile harbour cranes handling up to 40-foot containers or 100 tonnes, a pneumatic unloader at 600 tonnes per hour for aluminium smelter product, wood chip stockpile loader at 700 tonnes per hour with 150,000-tonne capacity, and bulk liquid complex at 400-500 tonnes per hour with 4,775-tonne storage; on-site warehousing encompassing dry storage, cold storage, open storage, and blast freezers; and off-port Intermodal Freight Centre established in 2016 adjacent to the KiwiRail railhead in Invercargill for efficient distribution to Southland and Otago regions. The port handles over 3.4 million tonnes of cargo annually, importing alumina, petroleum products, fertiliser, acid, stock food, and cement while exporting aluminium, timber, logs, dairy, meat by-products, fish, and woodchips, primarily serving Southland's export industries located 30 to 80km from the port. Formed in 1988 to succeed the Southland Harbour Board with the Port of Bluff operational since 1877, the company is headquartered at Island Harbour, Bluff, and listed on the NZX since 1994 with Environment Southland as its 66% majority shareholder; it employs over 120 full-time equivalent staff as a major regional employer. Recent developments include reporting record profits in its 2025 fiscal year reflecting operational resilience and infrastructure strength, releasing its 2025 Annual Report and Climate-Related Disclosures in September 2025, issuing employee share rights under its plan in September 2025, providing positive earnings guidance updates through June 2025, announcing a director's retirement ahead of the October 2025 Annual Meeting, appointing an intern director in February 2025, and strengthening New Zealand port relationships for potential sector rationalisation as outlined in its 2025 Annual Report.