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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm repressed, but zero point seven seemed a very

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Speaker 1: good number to me. We're out of recession, and the

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Speaker 1: number was higher than any one forecast. Growth was to

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Speaker 1: be found, especially in transport, postal warehousing. They had a

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Speaker 1: two point four percent number for the quarter alone. Charted

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Speaker 1: Institute of Logistics and Transport Vice president Paul coshures where

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Speaker 1: there's Paul morning.

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Speaker 2: Well in Mike, how are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Are you feeling it? You're seeing it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I have. It's very interesting. Actually, I was talking

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Speaker 2: to one of my friends who owns the company in

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Speaker 2: Auckland and tower On and I was only talking to

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Speaker 2: him on Wednesday, and he said, Paul, you won't believe it.

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Speaker 2: My business has taken off in the last three months.

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Speaker 2: Good and he's actually opening a new warehouse and Tara, Ah, well.

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Speaker 1: That was my next question. Do you think this leads

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Speaker 1: to something?

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Speaker 2: Definitely definitely there And talking to a lot of people

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Speaker 2: that I know in the industry, obviously they definitely seeing

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Speaker 2: a lift, in some cases as much as ten percent.

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Speaker 2: I know the increase was only about two and a

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Speaker 2: half percent, as you alluded to, but there's some companies

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Speaker 2: that are doing way better than others. Obviously, can you.

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Speaker 1: Break that down. I mean, just for everybody else who

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Speaker 1: doesn't follow this as go logistics and transport transport, we

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Speaker 1: understand who do you represent? I mean, what sort of

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Speaker 1: businesses are you dealing with?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're dealing with any transport operator, any warehousing come

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Speaker 2: three pl four pl Our members are quite diverse. We

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Speaker 2: also talk to the ports. Our president is he works

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Speaker 2: for the Port of Auckland and I'm in towering On

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Speaker 2: myself and my background is thirty to fifty years of

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Speaker 2: transport through mainly the trucking industry. But yes, I can

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Speaker 2: say quite honestly that there's definitely been a lift. And

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Speaker 2: I hear about these things all the time because I

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Speaker 2: obviously my network is quite diverse. And yeah, it's very

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Speaker 2: very interesting and really very exciting.

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Speaker 1: Good on. You're Paul glad to hear something positive. Don't

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Speaker 1: text me. He represents a lot of people. Paul Cosh,

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Speaker 1: who's with the Charted Institute of Logistics and Transport More

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