Transport Land

A major New Zealand bus company, keen to do the right thing both for the environment and for its business, decided to move to a fuel that produces lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Fonterra has centralised its storage and packing for its Waikato plants on a large dry and cool store facility at Crawford St in Hamilton. This has enabled it to rationalise the storage and transport of its products in the Waikato, and enabed greater use of rail transport.

This report examines the fuel savings and other benefits from creating a freight hub.

New Zealand's cities and towns rely primarily on diesel buses for meeting their public transport needs. EECA commissioned MRCagney to consider whether there are opportunities for greater uptake of technologies that are more energy efficient and/or utilise renewable sources of energy (eg biogas, biodiesel, hybrid buses, electric buses, etc), using Christchurch as an example. MRCagney report that battery electric buses could make economic sense in New Zealand's cities today.