The Port Otago rail siding already carries around 60 percent of all containers moving through the terminal,” Peters said.
“KiwiRail currently carries only 9% of New Zealand’s national freight task, when rail should be handling 30–40%,” Wellwood ...
On Christmas Eve in 1953, a train in New Zealand plunged into a river after a bridge collapsed beneath it. The Tangiwai disaster remains the country’s worst rail tragedy, claiming dozens of lives.