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Speaker 1: Inter Island, a fleet will go from three to two.

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Speaker 1: Key Rail set to retire one of its feries. It's

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Speaker 1: been a long haul of the other teddy. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: the same one that ran around and picked in last year.

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Speaker 1: If you were wondering the two new rail feries currently

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Speaker 1: expected to arrive twenty twenty nine, Winston Peter's the rail

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Speaker 1: minister with me this morning, Minister, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: So one hundred and twenty million dollars is what it

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Speaker 1: would have cost to upgrade a port to keep this

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Speaker 1: particular fury running for the next three years as a stopgap?

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Speaker 1: Is that right.

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Speaker 2: Now? It would be an attempt to try and juggle

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Speaker 2: things around while you built a temporary arrangement to fill

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Speaker 2: things out in the meantime. And really that was a cost.

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Speaker 2: It didn't make any sense at all. And so the

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Speaker 2: decision has been made vi Q Rail to ensure that

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Speaker 2: we maintain a service not as good as a pass.

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Speaker 2: That's something that will enable us to appair properly for

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Speaker 2: the future. With the Excity Arch and Kayah.

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Speaker 1: Down to two vessels, what does that mean for crossings?

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Speaker 1: How many few are, how much less freight? What's the

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Speaker 1: impact on you know, our well, it'll.

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Speaker 2: Be implemented by it'll be submitted the fair question. It'll

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Speaker 2: be supmented by added shipping around the coast as well

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Speaker 2: and a reformulated program. But they've assured both us and

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Speaker 2: the customers, their customers that it can be done where

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Speaker 2: confident can be. The real issue here, though, of course,

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Speaker 2: was a serving enormous amount of money that would have

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Speaker 2: been less than the old plans, which is, you know,

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Speaker 2: blown out from being very lowest figure we started with

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Speaker 2: to almost on the treasury four billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: I get that. But you're saying the one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars is what we would have to pay

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Speaker 1: in order to have three ferries operating for the next

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Speaker 1: three years.

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're.

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Speaker 2: Saying, No, it's far more confide cater than that. What

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Speaker 2: has happened the course is that there's always going to

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Speaker 2: be at time when we had to deal with the

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Speaker 2: particularly the side of the of the shipping lane that's

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Speaker 2: set at the top of the South Arland. That was

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Speaker 2: always going to be the agent major problem. And we've

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Speaker 2: only got two hundred meters of face to work and

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Speaker 2: as a consequence, trying to adjust to get the Oritaria

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Speaker 2: to continue would have required that one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: million plus expenditure rather than to take the decision that

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Speaker 2: here Rail has taken.

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Speaker 1: Right, So it is fair to say that without one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million dollars we wouldn't be able to

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Speaker 1: have Arditatum operating.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, okay. And also and also we are trying

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Speaker 2: to build something for the next sixty years in terms

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Speaker 2: of infrastructure, totally get that's a critical problem.

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Speaker 1: But for the next three years or three and a

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Speaker 1: half years, are you saying there will be no impact

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Speaker 1: on our supply chains on our freight.

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Speaker 2: There will be an impact, but nothing which cannot be

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Speaker 2: handled that we've been assured by a q rail example,

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Speaker 2: setting on the fairy feet for passioners and care of

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Speaker 2: rail is complet can accommodate fate. It will make changes,

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Speaker 2: for example, to its rail fate and firry federals to

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Speaker 2: optimize the supply chain. So fairy fate like grain, isn't

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Speaker 2: going to be transferred into rail ferries, so it's more

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Speaker 2: likely we'll go bastly go by a way of shipping.

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Speaker 2: But you can see that the readers was that have

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Speaker 2: to be made but in the end, no, we'll keep

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Speaker 2: the supply line going while preparing for a far better future.

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Speaker 1: We are talking about nine hundred and twenty cars one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty rail cars per day that'll be taken

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Speaker 1: out of action. You're saying we are going to be

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Speaker 1: able to find a solution to work around for all

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Speaker 1: of that, so there's no disruption. It does sound ambitious, well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, ambitious it is, but this was always a huge

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Speaker 2: them when it was first contemplated to cook straight because

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Speaker 2: of its nature. However, it is a decision that has

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Speaker 2: to be made and we've gone over the figures with

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Speaker 2: key Rail, we've gone over the calculation with q Rail

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Speaker 2: after the massive correction that we have made when I

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Speaker 2: got the job as Monster last year in December. And

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Speaker 2: we're on our way now and look pastons traveling with

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Speaker 2: their cars might find the most popular day daytime settings

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Speaker 2: book up fast at especially bridge time of the year,

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Speaker 2: but evening savings will be on off and we're going

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Speaker 2: to change the schedules to time and keep the previous

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Speaker 2: going adequately enough.

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Speaker 1: Winston Peters appreciate your time. The Rail Minister. For more

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