Friday 29 November 2013 45 min Inquiry]\

At the Tauranga Port mrs Mills took a picture of logs that are stacked. These logs come from Asia and are shipped back to them for lots of different uses. The logs are mostly pine trees and we use them for paper, toys ETC. The logs are taken by truck to the port and then they can ship the logs to Asia. Most of the pine tree's come from the northern, east side of the North Island.


The logs are taken onto cargo ships where they are imported to Asia. The port of Tauranga sends about 5.6 million dollars worth of logs each year, thats 14% of their making! Once we collect the pine trees they come by logging trucks and take them into the port of Tauranga. When they get the pine tree's the port stacks them in triangles before taking them onto the cargo ships. The cargo ships take them to asian factories where they make paper ETC, but is is not that environmentally good.