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Speaker 1: Very news. We're losing one of the three into Islanders

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Speaker 1: as Kiwi Rail retires. The Ratari infrastructure is the issue

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Speaker 1: key we Rail boss Peter Ridi is with us on this. Peter,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to you. Good morning, Mike had I

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Speaker 1: had a sort of a headline grab what pull up,

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Speaker 1: get excited yesterday. I assume this wasn't breaking news yesterday

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Speaker 1: or was it? No.

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Speaker 2: Look, we thought we would come to the market early just

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Speaker 2: update customers and the whole market and planning for the

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Speaker 2: new new ships and the new assets. It's an opportunity

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Speaker 2: for us to engage with people now and just get

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Speaker 2: it out there. We knew it was going to happen.

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Speaker 2: We now we know the timing of the Port Wharf development.

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Speaker 2: It's now time to get on with it and start

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Speaker 2: the planning. But you know, it's a big decision. We're

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Speaker 2: going to engage with the people and stakeholder, so a

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Speaker 2: tough decision. It's been a big workhouse for the fleet.

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Speaker 1: Exactly how not ideal is this?

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Speaker 2: Well, we always knew it had to happen. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about a thirty year plan to new assets

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Speaker 2: for cook straight safety and reliability, and of course I

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Speaker 2: would always like to keep the existing fleet in and

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Speaker 2: just turn the keys over one day and bring and

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Speaker 2: bring the new ships in, but that can't happen. So

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Speaker 2: the out teddy needs particular rail infrastructure of Port Marlboro.

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Speaker 2: Port Marlboro, you know they need to bring that wharf down.

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Speaker 2: They've been upgrading it, but it needs to be changed.

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Speaker 2: So you know, look, yes, there will be some capacity

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Speaker 2: constraints at some stages. We've done a lot of work

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Speaker 2: in terms of how we'll work it through with our timetables,

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Speaker 2: in terms of our planning for man Genello locations. We're

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Speaker 2: going to start talking to customers now. During peak season,

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Speaker 2: you know there's not a lot of freight and Christmas

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Speaker 2: that's great for passengers. There'll be some periods where there

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Speaker 2: will be some constraints, but we're working through all that

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Speaker 2: of the month.

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Speaker 1: Here's a text Mike. As it gets harder to get

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Speaker 1: on a fairy, watch them put the price up.

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Speaker 2: You say, what, well, well, what I could say. The

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Speaker 2: reliability fairies over the summer season the last four months

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Speaker 2: has been one hundred percent. Right now, our focus is

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Speaker 2: on making sure we can move the capacity and the passengers.

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Speaker 2: So you know, the competitor's got two fairies. We'll have two.

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Speaker 2: We will be making sure they're reliable and and running between.

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Speaker 2: But yes, there will be some times where you might

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Speaker 2: be able to not get on the early morning one,

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Speaker 2: but get on the ferry you know, three four us later.

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Speaker 1: Okay, is this a gift for Bluebridge? Basically you're just

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Speaker 1: handing them business? No, well no, well no yet I

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Speaker 1: think yes.

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Speaker 2: We always think that when't take capacity out, you're going

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Speaker 2: to have capacity gets spread across the two. So yes,

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Speaker 2: and actually you know, when when either they have an issue,

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Speaker 2: we have an issue, we actually help each other out.

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Speaker 2: So yes, you're going to take a ship out, there's

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Speaker 2: going to be capacity spread across both. You know what

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Speaker 2: we have seen and we've had great customer experience and

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Speaker 2: service and reliability the last four months, so you know,

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Speaker 2: we'd be hoping that people will stick with us, but

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Speaker 2: I can understand at times they'll make other decisions.

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Speaker 1: Here's another text. They're flooding in for your Peter. How

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Speaker 1: much will you get for selling the oratarry? What's it

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Speaker 1: worth a scrap which I'm assuming is all that's left now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we haven't that there are options, Mike, We

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Speaker 2: haven't really gone through that. If it is scrapped, it's minimal.

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Speaker 2: But I mean we'll go through that as we go

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Speaker 2: through the planning of the exect retirement. But you know

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Speaker 2: it's twenty eight years old, so.

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Speaker 1: Is it not bad options? Do you? I don't think

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Speaker 1: I've talked to you about through this whole process, this whole

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Speaker 1: fairy thing. You know that you'll be well acquainted with.

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Speaker 1: How is a country? Do you reckon? We've handled it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look if you think about you know the two islands,

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Speaker 2: the way we've moved significant freight and passengers across the

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Speaker 2: country significantly reliably, and the Cook Strait is not an

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Speaker 2: easy water passage. I think incredible. The fact that we've

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Speaker 2: got ships now, you know, the last four months, as

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Speaker 2: I've said, one hundred percent reliably. You know, it's had

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Speaker 2: a history like a lot of industries. But I think

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Speaker 2: our team, I'm really proud of what our team do.

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Speaker 2: We've had, you know, issues, but we've got on with it.

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Speaker 2: I think for New Zealand it's a critical trading route

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Speaker 2: and I think ourselves and competitor we're all out that

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Speaker 2: you're doing as best we can.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. PET appreciate time very much, Peter Radio. I

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Speaker 1: love the way people call the other people. I mean

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