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Speaker 1: Downtown. Auckland's getting a new cruise terminal. Port of Auckland's

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Speaker 1: doing it two hundred million bucks. They Reckon opens March

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Potential to double ship calls to one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty a year, could add an extra one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand terrists as well. Jackie Lloyd, New Zealand Cruiz

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Speaker 1: Association CEO, with me this morning, Jackie.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ryan.

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Speaker 1: So how big is this? How big of a deal

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Speaker 1: is this?

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Speaker 2: This is a game changer, really is for Auckland and

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Speaker 2: also for New Zealand. We're absolutely thrilled that Porter is

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Speaker 2: going through with this work. And from a cruise industry

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Speaker 2: point of view, it really shows that New Zealand and

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Speaker 2: Auckland welcomes and wants cruise lines.

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Speaker 1: What bit changes is it the four and a half

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Speaker 1: thousand plus the big ships.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of a mix of all. I mean,

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Speaker 2: certainly they can go up to four and a half thousand,

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Speaker 2: but certainly my understanding is smaller ships can still use

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Speaker 2: the space as well. But what it does is it

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Speaker 2: creates a dedicated welcome area to people visiting New Land

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Speaker 2: that are disembarking off ships. Currently they're using temporary locations

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Speaker 2: that have to sort of to be built in the

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Speaker 2: morning and taken down in the afternoon. We've got a

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Speaker 2: really a dedicated welcome and a dedicated infrastructure for cruise

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Speaker 2: which is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Does it look a bit povo when they get off

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Speaker 1: at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Well, let's just put it this way. We've been using

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Speaker 2: temporary space for the last twenty years. If you think

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Speaker 2: that where cruise lines coming at Prince's Wharf by using

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Speaker 2: the Hilton's conference space that was really supposed to be

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Speaker 2: a temporary EFEX back in the early two thousands and

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Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty six we're still using it. So

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Speaker 2: to have that dedicated space where MPI, where customs can

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Speaker 2: be based full term, and also to have a welcoming

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Speaker 2: check in area and dedicated space for coaches and buses

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Speaker 2: and also for taxis is really.

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Speaker 1: Important, fantastic. It includes the new Blidislow North Wharf. Where's that?

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Speaker 2: So that from my understanding is about two three across

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Speaker 2: to the east of Queenswarf so still very much in

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Speaker 2: walking distance from downtown Auckland, which is a key part

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Speaker 2: of the positivity I guess of cruise finds coming into Auckland,

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Speaker 2: they can have passengers that walk directly off the ship

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Speaker 2: and straight into town to go shopping, to go to hotels,

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Speaker 2: to go to retail and or so to hospitality.

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Speaker 1: Has part of the product, like do we have a

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Speaker 1: problem with attracting tourists who want to come cruising here

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Speaker 1: or has the problem being just our facilities that the

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Speaker 1: companies that run the ships actually don't want to go

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Speaker 1: and have a temporary lift of steers coming to pick

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Speaker 1: them up.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's a little bit of a mix of from

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Speaker 2: an infrastructure point of view and from a welcome point

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Speaker 2: of view. So there is still a really strong interest

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Speaker 2: in cruises coming to New Zealand. You know, cruise at

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Speaker 2: the moment is around thirty seven million cruise passengers globally.

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Speaker 2: That's up from thirteen million back in twenty ten, so

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Speaker 2: it's a huge growth. But what we have been is

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Speaker 2: probably quite an unwelcoming country for the last wee while

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Speaker 2: we've had changing and costs and increases, we're aout changes

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Speaker 2: and regulations and we've not really looked like we wanted

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Speaker 2: to have the cruise industry and cruise passengers in in

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Speaker 2: our areas. And this dedicated terminal for cruise and a

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Speaker 2: cruise birth in Auckland really really does change that mindset

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Speaker 2: for the crew.

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Speaker 1: Sign brilliant, Jackie. Good to talk to you this morning,

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Speaker 1: as always, Jackie Lloyd, New Zealand Cruise Association. For more

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