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Napier Engineering at work on West Coast

Process consolidation at key Westland meat plant In 2015 ANZCO implemented a policy to centralise process rendering on its Canterbury plant at Ashburton. This was part of ANZCO’s strategy of applying to the best advantage the geographical spread of its New Zealand-wide processing sites in order to achieve freshness of products. The consolidation meant that the ANZCO plant at Kokiri, near Greymouth, now concentrated on meat cuts and associated chilling and blast freezing along with hide preservation and products in thepharmaceutical sphere. It also meant that the Kokiri plant was now required to transport to the centralised Canterbury plant all…

Vacancy at Top of IMF Looms

John Key is obvious candidate The continuing shadow of the Tapie scandal overhanging Christine Lagarde has reappeared and threatens to create at the head of the International Monetary Fund a vacancy that could by filled by New Zealand Premier John Key. South Seas prime ministers past and present are currently in vogue to fill exactly this kind of top-line international forum role, a trend that was begun by former New Zealand premier Mike Moore taking the helm of the World Trade Organisation. Another former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is in full campaign for the top slot at the…

France’s Far Left Cripples Official Response to Terrorism

Wool pulled over eyes of English-speaking realm MSC Newswire’s European correspondent explains the causes and effects of the emergency in France: - Terrorism presents the picture of a permanent part of French life?Until Nice and the Thomas-a-Becket style assassination of the catholic priest you could almost say that it was becoming an accepted part of French life. Explain?It is not yet understood in the English-speaking world that the very structure of France led inevitably to the kind of chaos we see today. Fill in the gaps?The constant pull from France’s extreme left, the gauche de la gauche, as it is…

No fanfare in Singapore for Warburg Pincus’ Tim Geithner

But old Siegmund knew all about private banking. Former US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited Singapore last week in his new role as president of global private equity fund Warburg Pincus and his presence hardly raised a ripple of interest. No wonder, writes MSC Newswire's Peter Isaac. Singapore has taken over from Switzerland as the home of private banking with the added impetus of becoming the centre of Chinese private banking too. Driven out of Switzerland by a Franco-US led purge on anonymous accounts, the private banking sector and its customers have settled in the orderly city state and have…

Southern Spars to build Emirates Team New Zealand’s boat for the 35th America’s Cup.

New Zealand’s Southern Spars has provided masts for a range of different teams in every America’s Cup for the past 25 years, including the victorious Black Magic campaign in 1995. The boat, a 50ft foiling catamaran, will be launched early next year ahead of the Louis Vuitton Challenger Series and America’s Cup to be held in Bermuda from the beginning of May 2017. Emirates Team New Zealand said it will be its most technically-advanced yacht ever. Last month, Emirates Team New Zealand launched its first custom-designed development boat, which Southern Spars is also producing the wing-sails for. Emirates Team New…

How do you maneuver a helicopter on a yacht?

When a New Zealand businessman needed to solve a unique transportation problem, he sought out a Bend (OR)company for help. Tiger Tugs, a subsidiary of Cutting Edge Design Inc. in southeast Bend, recently finished work on a modified version of its standard remote-control helicopter tug. While standard Tiger Tugs can only move a helicopter forward and backward into a hangar, the new version, the Typhoon, can move in any direction. Steve Hill, founder of Tiger Tugs, said this will allow the New Zealand businessman to land a helicopter on his luxury yacht, and turn it sideways to fit it into…

ContainerCo to develop new container depot in Hawke's Bay

ContainerCo (NZL) Limited (ContainerCo), the container depot operator, today announced that it will develop a major new container services facility in Hawke’s Bay as reported earlier in the year on MSCNewsWire The new purpose built facility will be developed on a five hectare site in Mersey Street, within the Napier City Council’s industrial zone. Over time, it is expected that $5-10m will be invested in the site development. ContainerCo’s managing director Ken Harris said that the investment both reflects and supports the growth of exports and imports in Hawke’s Bay as well as the continued success of Napier Port in…

Golf Cart Jetpack gives new meaning to a "birdie"

Pro Golfer Bubba Watson, Oakley and Martin Aircraft have teamed up to create the Golf Cart Jetpack. The humble golf cart is not very slick, but it gets the job done. So is there a better way to get from tee to green? In 2013, pro golfer Bubba Watson, along with Oakley and Neoteric Hovercraft, posed this question with a Golf Cart Hovercraft. Now, with the help of Martin Aircraft, the team has taken to the skies with the Golf Cart Jetpack. Based on Martin's current pre-production prototypes, the Golf Cart Jetpack can fly as high as 3,000 feet (914…

Vice President Biden seeks to encourage NZ adherence to perilous trade policies

Increasingly awkward national role as US foreign policy cheerleader US Vice President Joe Biden’s “touchdown” this week in New Zealand presents New Zealand premier John Key with the problem of having to enthuse over several issues that he knows are actually or potentially damaging to the economy, or are being viewed as unlikely to happen. They are:- China’s expansion into the South China Sea. This falls on top of the steel dumping issue. Any overt condemnation of China’s territorial incursions into the South China Sea has the possibility of very severely damaging New Zealand’s dairy exports. China’s economy is a…

Powerful Troika Headed by The Queen Supports Restoration of Commonwealth Trading Bloc

Her Majesty always committed to Commonwealth but Doctrinal UK commentators bamboozle naïve NZ counterparts Three powerful figures are now ranged behind a restoration of the Commonwealth trade and emigration bloc centred on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.They are Her Majesty the Queen, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, and international trade secretary Dr Liam Fox. Her Majesty is known to favour a return of the active and operational Commonwealth era. The Queen is the head of the Commonwealth and has remained its consistently most ardent supporter. Foolishly, what is left of the print media here, and which is in thrall to elements…

Paul Henry Absence from NZ Show boosts BBC Top Gear Rumours

Friendship with Sir David Attenborough seen as big plus for car-buff presenter Paul Henry’s mysterious mid-winter holiday is increasingly being ascribed to the television showman’s candidacy for the BBC’s most valuable property which is the motor series Top Gear. Mr Henry (pictured above) is known to have been considered for the anchor role when it originally became vacant when defining presenter Jeremy Clarkson made his departure. Since then the show has floundered, notably during the term as presenter of a well-known British disc jockey and is now often referred to as Top Flop. The BBC has too much invested in…

UK, EU, US Trade Re-alignment Prompts Napier Port & Engineering Ship Repair Tech Push

Hawkes Bay institutions anticipate port ship mechanical services demand Napier, MSCNewsWire, Thursday 14 July 2016 - Two historic pillars of the Hawkes Bay economy are evaluating a joint approach in developing Napier as a focus for ship repair in the South Seas. They are the Port of Napier itself and Napier Engineering and Contracting whose 150 year history has been closely linked to the progress of the port. Napier Engineering is the east coast’s major heavy engineer and in association with the port undertakes vessel repairs while the ships are wharfside. The company specialises in rapid deployment repairs begun and…