The Port of Tauranga

The Port of Tauranga is a huge place that stores logs and is actually 113.4 hectors of land. Logs are keeped in the shape of a triangle so that logs do not roll down. There is 186 staff that help around the port of Tauranga. The staff work 45 hours a week. Tauranga gets pine logs into cargo ships, transported by trains, or driven by a truck so they can get shifted back to Asia,China and Korea. Asia send us pine logs, and we turn it into paper, and other materials, we do this because Asia is to big to secure a area for to work with logs.

When you cut a pine tree down from the forest, the rule is that you have to plant three more trees to replace that one. It takes 20 years for a pine tree to grow strong and tall. Once the trees get transported to Asia, Korea, China or any other country, they then get made into houses, furniture, paper, pencils, and any other materials.

C3 is a place in tauranga that looks after logs. Every year C3 takes in or transports 23 million pine trees a year,