TRANSPORT sOLUTIONS

Across our various business units, Hall’s Group provides a comprehensive range of logistic solutions that we can tailor to each customer’s needs using our extensive national network of teams, depots and stores. 

We offer a reliable service with a comprehensive fleet of purpose-built units for line haul, short haul and metro services. 

We have state-of-the-art cross-dock facilities at strategic national locations. We transport, store, pick and dispatch chilled, frozen and dry goods by road, rail and sea. 

Our rail side docking capabilities include specialist rail units and quick service restaurant deliveries. 

Intermodal service

Through our Intermodal service, we offer transport solutions across road, sea and railway. We have a small, specialized team supported by a national network of logistic experts. With nearly 30 drivers, our intermodal service cover the major routes in the North Island - Palmerston North & up. We have robust systems in place to ensure teams follow agreed processes for the uplift, transportation & delivery of containers, including complying with all health and safety policies and procedures.

Logistics hub - Manawatu

Our new multi-million-dollar transport cross-dock facility opened in Longburn on 17 September 2024. With Hall’s large Storage facility and Manawatu Inland Port located at Longburn already, the addition of this Transport facility secures Hall’s in the Manawatu region as provider of a vast range of cold chain logistics services for our customers.

An import and export hub for chilled and frozen products, the site is connected directly to a national transport network as well as providing both a rail and road gateway to all of New Zealand ports.

Hall’s Longburn site provides customers with the opportunity to de-hire containers back into Manawatu Inland Port, eliminating the shipping cost back to port (and minimising the opportunity for demurrage). This also helps to reduce trucks on the road, thereby reducing the number of empty containers moving around the country, resulting in reduced carbon emissions.

Hall’s can provide a 1-stop-shop from origin-to-port destination, or port destination to unique customer delivery points around New Zealand.

We provide container transport, on-power container storage, devanning/vanning, blast freezing, storage, pick and pack, and delivery to customers around New Zealand.

What the site offers

  • MIP Transitional facility for unloading containers

  • Storage capacity for >10,000 frozen pallets

  • Container Storage (on/off power)

  • Servicing import and exports, including fumigation

  • RMP transitional facility with certification for multiple export products into all destinations (catering for halal and haram food)

  • Ambient (non-food) storage and cross-dock capability

  • Cross-dock for national distribution of chilled and frozen food

  • The connection into, out of and around New Zealand for all chilled and Frozen products

We provide long-haul container cartage, but can also deliver cartons, pallets or full loads. 

With 640-plus specialist vehicles, swing lifts, top loaders and Gen and Quad trailers there are a lot of options, and flexibility in approach.  If additional capacity during peak periods is required, our large, company-controlled fleet means we can quickly and easily reposition drivers and equipment to provide cover for you.

Most of our fleet is fitted with multi-temperature units to allow maximisation of load efficiency and seamless delivery of dual temperature consignments.

  • All our depots are certified vehicle docking facilities (VDF) 

  • We are NZFSA and MPI-registered and offer a customs-approved transitional facility and export container loading. 

Our ongoing investment in technology adds value across our operations with an online booking system through our customer portal, and EDI interface with customer systems.

A summary of our transport services 

  • Chilled + Frozen Transport

  • Road | Rail | Coastal

  • Carton | Pallets | Full Load | Containers

  • Nationwide Service

  • 640+ specialist vehicles

  • Swing Lifts | Combi Lifts | Gen Sets

  • Quick Service Restaurant deliveries

  • Transport Management System

  • Sign on Glass Technology

  • EDI | Web Portal | System access

  • Customer Service support team