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Speaker 1: The major piece of infrastructure for Auckland and therefore New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: This is the new two hundred million dollar international cruise

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Speaker 1: precinct which has been announced this morning. It's going to

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Speaker 1: process up to fifteen hundred passengers an hour. It'll have

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Speaker 1: the potential to double ship calls to one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty a year. Roger Groves, the Chief executive of course

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Speaker 1: of Ports of Auckland, they's with us morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Fast Track. Apart from the facility itself, the fast Track

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Speaker 1: as a process, you like it or not, I.

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Speaker 2: Think it's fantastic. What it's done is it's allowed us

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Speaker 2: to get the Bledizo Northwarf built two years after we

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Speaker 2: apply it. That would have taken us five years previously

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Speaker 2: get consented. So it's great.

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Speaker 1: The chances of it actually happening by March next year.

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Speaker 2: Are what one hundred percent. It's built. It's being built

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Speaker 2: as we speak, so it'll be finished by March.

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Speaker 1: What changes materially given ships already birth.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mike, what this does is allows us one to

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Speaker 2: bring the very large cruise ships alongside, so the four

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Speaker 2: four thy five hundred passenger ones. It also means that

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Speaker 2: we can start to exit the Princess Wharf, which is

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Speaker 2: the very very basin, and start to move the ships

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Speaker 2: away from interfering with favies.

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Speaker 1: What's it do for your bottom line? Does it change that? Materially?

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Speaker 2: We expect to see the growth of up to fifty

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Speaker 2: to one hundred thousand more passengers coming through, So yes,

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Speaker 2: this is material investments.

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Speaker 1: So more ships come as a result of there's different

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Speaker 1: ships in that sense.

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Speaker 2: More ships and bigger ships. We are seeing the market

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Speaker 2: growing into bigger ships and we're expecting to see more

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Speaker 2: of those.

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Speaker 1: And have we adjusted That's not your department, but have

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Speaker 1: we adjusted the rules so ships can come here more

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Speaker 1: easily as part of a tourism picture or not.

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Speaker 2: Yep, we're certainly given them certainty. Now we've got niche

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Speaker 2: hull cleaning capabilities. All the things they were worried about

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Speaker 2: two or three years ago have been addressed.

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Speaker 1: How do we cock that up?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think we just had a whole culture at

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Speaker 2: the time of saying no to things and as a

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Speaker 2: result we've had to change that mindset as a country

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Speaker 2: and we've done.

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Speaker 1: It all right. As do you take business away from

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Speaker 1: other ports? Is no? No?

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Speaker 2: If anything, what will happen is by growing Auckland, it

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Speaker 2: will grow in New Zealand because once the ship position

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Speaker 2: in the region, they'll stay and go around this around

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Speaker 2: to other ports.

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Speaker 1: So obviously this looks through the war, doesn't it. This

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Speaker 1: is out the other side because fuel, ships, tourism, uncertainty,

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Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. You've got to keep thinking about.

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Speaker 1: Are you seeing anything at the moment as a result

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Speaker 1: of the war at the port?

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Speaker 2: Nothing. Cargo's coming as normal, ships are on schedule. We're

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Speaker 2: not seeing any increased demand for containers. Everything's tracking exactly

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Speaker 2: as it would normally.

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Speaker 1: Would you expect that to continue?

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Speaker 2: I do, unless the war continues for three or four months.

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Speaker 2: If that happens, there's likely to become congestion in northern Hemisphere.

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Speaker 2: But at this stage we're not seeing any impact.

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Speaker 1: And so fuel's not an issue. Potentially.

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Speaker 2: Nope, We've got plenty of access. So we were talking

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Speaker 2: to BP yesterday. We've got capability to keep refueling ships

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Speaker 2: here at the port. We're not got to conc are.

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Speaker 1: You part of the government discussion in general? In that sense,

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Speaker 1: As far as fuel is concerned.

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Speaker 2: All of the ports are through the port's CEO.

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Speaker 1: And so what would the port's CEO be telling the

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Speaker 1: government at the moment, And in terms of fuel and

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Speaker 1: issues and rules and regulations and what we should shouldn't be.

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Speaker 2: In regards to fuel and regards to cargo. Everything's tracking well.

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Speaker 2: If there is any concerns, then make sure you let

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Speaker 2: cargo or cargo flow. We don't want to pick one

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Speaker 2: over the other like we tried to do during COVID.

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Speaker 2: It's important that we just see all cargo transport as

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Speaker 2: being vital and essential.

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Speaker 1: Is bullish too strong a word, or just you're confident.

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Speaker 2: I'm just confident. I think that this conflict will have

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Speaker 2: a disruptor, but the reality is global supply chains will

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Speaker 2: adjust and we'll keep seeing things go along as normal.

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Speaker 1: All right, Appreciate time, Roger Gray, who's the head of

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Speaker 1: all com forth, that's encouraging. Isn't as far as especially

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Speaker 1: given what MB did yesterday, so they couldn't read the

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Speaker 1: column whereby the diesel that was being dispatched into the

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Speaker 1: country counted as petrol in the country, so the number

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Speaker 1: they gave out the day before was wrong. Ladie Hell

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