A hold of the ship Shima Maru is shown being filled from Lyttelton’s wood-chip stockpile yesterday. The entire stockpile of about 9000 tonnes was loaded into two holds of the vessel, which will top off her cargo with more
woodchips at Tauranga before sailing for Kure, Japan. It is the first shipment of wood chips from Lyttelton since July, 1979, when the Taikai Maru loaded 12,200 tonnes and it might be the last, at least for some time. Wood-chip exports to Japan reached a peak after
the big gale of August 1, 1975, but now most of the wind-blown timber in Canterbury has been salvaged, some of it exported in the form of chips, and much of it made into particle board as that industry has expanded. Accordingly, it is not known if a new chip stockpile will be started.
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