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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

Submission on whether international shipping emissions should be included in 2050 targets (2024)

New Zealand Shipping Federation submission to the Climate Change Commission on whether emissions from international shipping and aviation should be included in the 2050 target, and if so how. NZSF’s submission only looked at international shipping, not aviation, and questioned:

Whether a New Zealand-specific target would reduce emissions from international shipping more than would be achieved in the absence of a New Zealand-specific target
The Commission’s assumption any IMO target would not be met, but any New Zealand-specific target would be met
The risk a New Zealand-specific target would put international shipping services at risk
The selective use of market access analysis
The assessment of availability of alternative maritime fuels
The Commission’s preference for a New Zealand-specific target instead being part of a global system led by the International Maritime Organisation.

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Submission on whether emissions from international shipping should be included in the 2050 target.