Established in 1988 and headquartered in Bluff, New Zealand, South Port New Zealand Limited operates as a comprehensive provider and manager of port and warehousing services across the nation. The company's marine division delivers a broad range of support, including overseeing shipping movements, offering pilotage and procedural expertise, providing specialized marine plant and equipment, supplying crucial wind and tide condition data, and facilitating services such as syncrolift operations, hot work permits, and fuel transfers. Beyond marine support, it furnishes essential port infrastructure, encompassing land, various plant and equipment, and weighbridge services. Logistics solutions extend to comprehensive container management, covering servicing and tracking, alongside both cold and dry warehousing options. South Port handles a diverse array of cargo, from full container loads to break bulk and bulk shipments, managing the import of items like alumina, petroleum products, fertilizers, acids, stock foods, and cement, while facilitating the export of aluminum, timber, logs, dairy products, meat by-products, fish, and woodchips. A key specialization lies in project cargo, which involves managing oversized and complex items such as transformer weighing, components for wind farms and hydroelectric power stations (e.g., tail race equipment), mining machinery, tallow storage tanks, and various other types of heavy equipment, including pleasure and fishing vessels.