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Port Marlborough’s Dredging Plans to Encourage Larger Cruise Liners

Port Marlborough's Ian McNabb, left, and Rhys Welbourn in Front of Waimahara Wharf at Shakespeare Bay

Posted on April 14, 2016

By Heather Simpson, stuff.co.nz

Plans to dredge a wharf near Picton will allow megaliners to visit Marlborough before the end of the year.

Port Marlborough wants to remove nearly 20,000 cubic metres of seabed material from a section of the wharf at Shakespeare Bay.

Port Marlborough chief executive Ian McNabb said the dredging was needed to increase the berthing capacity of the wharf, which was unable to accommodate ships longer than 320 metres.

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