New Auckland home for Ministry for Primary Industries
Most of MPI's Auckland services will consolidate under one roof
The first sod has been turned ahead of a February construction start on a new multi-purpose Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) property at Auckland Airport.
The move to the new 17,000sq m building will allow MPI to consolidate most of its Auckland services under one roof at the airport and it will have more 4000sq m of office space, significant storage and warehousing and kennels for up to 80 dogs.
It brings together passenger and cargo clearance, export certification, compliance and inspection, fisheries operations and the national detector dog centre into one location. MPI will retain its base at Ports of Auckland.
MPI director-general Martyn Dunne says fitout costs for the new centre are being met within existing baseline funding. “The new premises will create efficiencies and improve experiences for key customers.
In the year to June, more than nine million international passengers passed through Auckland Airport alone. MPI’s detector dogs screened 100% of all incoming international passengers at peak times. Having our dog services located so close to the airport makes good sense,” Mr Dunne says. “We will have more space and better facilities to train the detector dogs, with simulated passenger halls and mail centre. This helps ensure the dogs are better equipped to screen the growing number of international passengers.”
About 400 of MPI’s Auckland staff who are working across three sites, will co-locate to the new premises in late-2017 when construction is finished.
MPI becomes the latest addition to Auckland Airport’s The Landing business park, which has more than 100ha of extensively landscaped development land.
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Sally Lindsay
Thu, 25 Aug 2016
Thu, 25 Aug 2016
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New Auckland home for Ministry for Primary Industries
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