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Speaker 1: New idea to link the North and South Islands. We've

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Speaker 1: got to pitch for a two hour fairy link, a

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Speaker 1: newport built at Clifford Bay, Remember Clifford Bay near Blenham,

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Speaker 1: multi use terminal, no speed restrictions, boost the logistics and productivity.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Stephen Gris is the spokesperson for seabee Port Limited

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Speaker 1: and is with a Stephen Morning, Morning, Mike, good to

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Speaker 1: be with you. How much government, how much private?

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Speaker 2: We can fully finance this privately, but we're agnostic to

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Speaker 2: what the final capital contributions from the crowd would be. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: if the crowd wants to make capital contributions to see

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Speaker 2: it's requirement's met, we're open to that conversation.

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Speaker 1: What sort of ships and what are you moving people?

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Speaker 1: And cheap and rail.

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Speaker 2: And what everything? All of the freight that currently goes

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Speaker 2: between the Cockstrait. We're just going to make it faster

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Speaker 2: and with higher service levels because the ships can probably

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Speaker 2: operate three return sailings a day instead of two.

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Speaker 1: So this is directly taking on into island.

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Speaker 2: No no anything, but we see Andre Island there is

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Speaker 2: you know, potentially a foundation customer.

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Speaker 1: In what way? So what are you telling me? I'm

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Speaker 1: standing at Wellington. I've got a ticket. I can buy

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Speaker 1: a ticket on your ship ring and buy a ticket

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Speaker 1: on the Intero island. How's that not competition?

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Speaker 2: It is competition. We're an open axious port, so we're

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Speaker 2: open to all ferry operators to be able to operate

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Speaker 2: out of our port. So we were not inscriminatory, right.

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Speaker 2: You know, we obviously need customers, but we see Kiwi

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Speaker 2: Rail particularly as a foundation customer.

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Speaker 1: You reckon they would because we've been here before. Those

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Speaker 1: of us have been around a while. Clifford Bay is

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Speaker 1: not new in this. I mean we've looked at Clifford

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Speaker 1: Bay and they rightly or wrongly, are not going there.

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Speaker 2: We know they would. We've had discussions. We haven't had

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Speaker 2: any commercially finalized discussions, but our early discussions with the

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Speaker 2: miss port existed, they would be there.

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Speaker 1: What's the timeframe?

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Speaker 2: We can have this port up and running by twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty nine. In fact, we think we'll be ahead. It

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Speaker 2: could even be potentially ahead of that because we're bringing

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Speaker 2: new engineering and capabilities that we can construct this port

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Speaker 2: with a floating dwarfs that can be designed and built overseas,

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Speaker 2: and the operational in new Zealand by twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Cruise ships not the intention.

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Speaker 2: But it's not out of the it's not out of

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Speaker 2: the realms of possibility. But we see cruise ships more

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Speaker 2: being the realm of pacton because of the natural environment

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Speaker 2: and would maximize the future of the environment and collegy

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Speaker 2: and tourism in that area.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I wish you the best with it, Stephen

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Speaker 1: and doctor Stephen gris see be port limited. See where

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Speaker 1: that goes.

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