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Benefits of shipping:
Resilience for natural disasters or emergencies.
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Ships carry hazardous / dangerous cargo more safely than road, rail and air.
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15% of New Zealand's inter-regional freight is carried by sea
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Ships can handle oversized, heavy and bulky cargo that road, rail and air can't.
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Freight volumes are forecast to increase 50% by 2040.
It won't all fit onto our roads!
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New Zealand’s total freight task: 278.7 million tonnes.
Coastal shipping carries approx 10 million tonnes (3.5%).
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1.15m people are transported across the Cook Strait every year
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The volume of domestic freight moved by shipping has increased 50% over the last 10 years.
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Approx $28 billion road and rail freight is shipped between the North and South Islands each year
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1 standard container Auckland to Christchurch:
road: $2200-$3000
rail: $1300 - $1900
ship: $850 - $1300
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418,470 containers are moved around the NZ coast per annum
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Shipping: one-eighth the emissions of road per tonne of freight moved
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Benefits of shipping:
Lower emissions per tonne of freight moved.
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Increasing total freight carried by ship by just 2% would reduce total transport emissions by 16%.
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Benefits of shipping:
Greater control over our domestic supply chains.
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Shipping: 60% the emissions of rail per tonne of freight moved
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Deeply disappointing that dry dock is not part of infrastructure announcements

Subject: Media Release: Deeply disappointing that dry dock is not part of infrastructure announcements

Media Release

Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Deeply disappointing that dry dock is not part of infrastructure announcements

“It is deeply disappointing that today’s infrastructure package does not include a dry dock,” says Clive Glover, NZ Shipping Federation President.

“The government really needs to stop talking about coastal ships and actually do something substantive to show their support.”

“A 250 metre dry dock is the missing piece of the transport infrastructure jigsaw.”

“Having dry dock in New Zealand would save fuel which is obviously good for the environment. It would also save time and money for ship operators. It will mean that ships hulls can be easily inspected, repaired and cleaned without having to make a long and costly trip to Singapore of Sydney.”

“Investing in a dry dock would have been a smart use of taxpayers’ money and it will pay off as a financial investment. It would also benefit the environment as it will ensure that international ships with dirty hulls have an out-of-water option for cleaning, rather than doing it in-water at the 12-mile limit.”

Mr Glover said that the Federation will continue to work to make the dry dock a reality.

Contact points for the Federation are:

Clive Glover, President 027 444 4284

Annabel Young, Executive Director 021 429 216