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Speaker 1: Another step closer to our two new Inter Island Ferries.

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Speaker 1: Shipyard's been selected. We've got a price, I think at

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Speaker 1: a time frame deal. The ink needs to be put

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Speaker 1: on some paperwork somewhere. Chris McKenzie's the chair of Ferry

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Speaker 1: Holdings and is with us, Chris morning, Good morning. As

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Speaker 1: a process smooth sailing, no pun intended or not, it.

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Speaker 2: Has been smooth sailing, but it has been a fairly

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Speaker 2: concentrated process because of a timeline of twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 2: We've had to push the staff and the shipyards quite hard,

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Speaker 2: but it has all gone very well up to this point.

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Speaker 1: In going to the world with a deal like this,

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Speaker 1: are there plenty of people who are keen or are

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Speaker 1: we small beer?

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Speaker 2: No? We started off with over sixty yards, then came

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Speaker 2: down to fifteen to twelve and then the final six.

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Speaker 2: And the reason for the final six was they were

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Speaker 2: the yards that gave us a very good guarantee that

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Speaker 2: they could have the two ships by twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: So truly are we at on timeframe and price? Is

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Speaker 1: that locked in? Or are we going down to micro

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Speaker 1: negotiating Now?

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Speaker 2: We have signed a letter I signed a letter of

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Speaker 2: intent on Monday. We've had a response from the shipyard.

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Speaker 2: We now go into technical negotiations, even down to things

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Speaker 2: like where the toilets are located and so forth, and

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Speaker 2: those are to be completed and a contract will be

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Speaker 2: signed in November or December, which meets the deadline that

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Speaker 2: we had for the end of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Right. Compare it to a car. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you know anything about cars. What have we bought? We

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Speaker 1: bought a Toyota Corolla. Have we bought a nine to

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Speaker 1: eleven Porsche? What have we bought?

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Speaker 2: I would say that we brought an Obacca. We've brought

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Speaker 2: a good solid.

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Speaker 1: Holden Holden what Camara, Holden Commodore, Co Holden Commodore. There

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Speaker 1: you go. I want to ask you what size engine

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Speaker 1: or manual or automatic? But okay, we like it. So

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Speaker 1: you're happy with where we're at.

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Speaker 2: I am very happy with where we're at. I'm happy

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Speaker 2: with the discussion that we've had with the shipyards. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've had shipyards in four different countries. We've come down

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Speaker 2: to one and that will be announced at the time

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Speaker 2: that we signed the contract.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time very much, Chris. Chris McKenzie who is

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Speaker 1: the tier of ferry holdings. Grig Murphy will have fallen

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Speaker 1: off this chaer, eating this breakfast. They bought a holding.

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Speaker 1: They bought a hold in Commodore. For more from The

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