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2.7% of Wellington employees work in transport and logistics

Microsoft Copilot for Wellington freight coordination

The freight office often works across Outlook, Excel and Teams while the movement record sits elsewhere. Learn how to use Copilot for that coordination work and check each result before it reaches a carrier.

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Employees in transport and logistics
7,636Wellington, February 2025
Share of Wellington employees
2.7%16 of 16 regions
Share across New Zealand
4.2%all regions, February 2025
Location quotient
0.65×less concentrated than nationally

Transport and logistics in Wellington

Wellington's regional development plan treats freight connectivity and resilient infrastructure as growth enablers.1 This suggests a useful training focus: how an office shares confirmed information when a connection changes. A generic Seaview dispatch office can rehearse a transfer delay using invented records and its own approved communication rules.

TheColab's sessions start inside the Microsoft applications available to your staff. We check the enabled experience before choosing exercises because grounding and app features vary with licensing and configuration.5 Training can run at your workplace in Wellington, the Hutt Valley or elsewhere in the region, with remote delivery available for dispersed office teams.

Paid employees in transport and logistics went from 8,339 in February 2020 to 7,636 in February 2025 (−8.4%).

Share of paid employees in transport and logistics, by region

Share of employees in transport and logistics by region, Wellington highlighted
RegionChartShareNZ×
Southland 5.5% 4.2% 1.3×
Marlborough 5.0% 4.2% 1.2×
Auckland 4.9% 4.2% 1.2×
Nelson 4.9% 4.2% 1.2×
Bay of Plenty 4.6% 4.2% 1.1×
Canterbury 4.3% 4.2% 1.0×
West Coast 4.2% 4.2% 1.0×
Otago 3.9% 4.2% 0.9×
Tasman 3.9% 4.2% 0.9×
Gisborne 3.6% 4.2% 0.9×
Northland 3.5% 4.2% 0.8×
Hawke's Bay 3.5% 4.2% 0.8×
Taranaki 3.5% 4.2% 0.8×
Waikato 3.2% 4.2% 0.8×
Manawatū-Whanganui 3.2% 4.2% 0.8×
Wellington (this page) 2.7% 4.2% 0.7×

Paid employees at business locations in the region, February 2025. The tick marks the national share. × is the regional share divided by the national share.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Local context

  • CentrePort's FY25 announcement ties technology investment to safety and productivity and records completed work at Seaview.2 KiwiRail's 2025 statement also connects replacement ferries with port planning at Wellington and Picton.3 These sources explain the local coordination setting; neither confirms Copilot use by those employers.2,3

Organisations are named for local context only. No relationship with them is implied.

Towns in Wellington

Each town page has its own figures and local brief.

Or see Microsoft Copilot training across Wellington.

Where Copilot helps transport and logistics teams

  • Read the carrier email trail

    In Outlook, practise summarising a synthetic thread about a changed pickup window. Microsoft's documentation includes email summaries and drafting.5 Ask Copilot to separate the customer's request, the carrier's confirmation and questions awaiting an answer. A coordinator checks the thread before writing the response and makes sure the proposed wording does not turn an estimate into a commitment.

    • Freight coordinator
    • Copilot in Outlook

  • Build the checked exception table

    Use a prepared Excel workbook with consistent headers for job status, depot and completion date. Ask Copilot to suggest a view of incomplete transfers and explain the calculation. Excel assistance is part of the documented Copilot application experience.5 The analyst verifies the selected rows and totals against the export, then labels the table with its reporting period and known gaps.

    • Operations reporting analyst
    • Copilot in Excel

  • Review a planning meeting

    Rehearse a Teams planning discussion with fabricated movements and an approved recording setup. Copilot can summarise meetings and capture action items.5 Ask for decisions, open questions and owners in separate groups. The meeting lead corrects any mistaken agreement before sharing the recap. Keep this practice meeting away from personal driver issues or confidential customer negotiations.

    • Depot planning lead
    • Copilot in Teams

  • Test a procedure lookup agent

    A Copilot Studio maker can prototype an internal agent over an approved escalation guide. Studio supports knowledge sources and agent testing.6 Try an incomplete delivery query, an outdated instruction and a request beyond the guide's scope. Require a link to the procedure and a route to a supervisor. Keep dispatch-system changes and customer messages under staff control during the pilot.

    • Power Platform maker
    • Copilot Studio

Follow a transfer through the office tools

  1. Create an invented transfer thread and a matching Excel job table.
  2. Summarise the correspondence and identify the rows that need investigation.
  3. Compare every proposed action with the current dispatch instruction.
  4. Have the operations lead approve the handover before saving it for practice.

Courses

  1. 1Introductory

    Microsoft Copilot foundations

    A first hands-on session on Copilot Chat and Copilot in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

  2. 2Advanced

    Copilot Studio agents and advanced Excel

    Build and test a Copilot Studio agent for one internal process, and go further with Copilot in Excel.

Transport and logistics in other regions

Other industries in Wellington

See Microsoft Copilot for transport and logistics across New Zealand, or all training in Wellington.

Transport and logistics in Wellington: questions

Which staff should attend together?

Include a dispatcher who understands the job record, an office coordinator and someone who maintains procedures. They can compare what the tools produce with what staff actually need for a correct handover.

Will all Microsoft accounts show the same functions?

Application features and work-data grounding differ by the Copilot experience and licence.5 Confirm the functions enabled for the pilot users before the session, then match exercises to that environment.

Can the agent decide whether a load is safe?

Use the practice agent to locate the approved procedure and identify the correct supervisor. Keep load safety and release judgements with authorised people who can inspect the conditions and the complete operational record.

How should we judge an office pilot?

Compare the output with the original email and job table. Record incorrect dates, missing questions and actions that lacked confirmation. This gives the team concrete evidence for revising the prompt and deciding the next task.

Train your transport and logistics team in Wellington

  1. ScopeHeadcount, sites, Microsoft 365 plan and licences, and the teams you want to start with.
  2. PlanWe propose a course, a pilot group and a format, and agree the files and meetings to use.
  3. TrainOn-site or over Teams, in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, with your own work.
  • In person
  • Remote
  • Half-day workshop
  • Full-day workshop
  • Team rollout

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Sources

Written 6 October 2026. Employment figures come from Stats NZ Business Demography Statistics.