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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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Unions and Employers agree on opportunities in Coastal shipping (2021)

Unions and Employers agree that Coastal shipping is an opportunity

“Coastal shipping is ready to accept any challenges from Government and the unions when it comes to increasing the role of coastal shipping in the Kiwi supply chain” said Clive Glover, President of the NZ Shipping Federation today.“We want to work with the government and the unions to remove impediments to and encourage the use of coastal ships.”

Mr Glover was responding to the comments made today by Craig Harrison, National Secretary of the Maritime Union (MUNZ).

“Gaining alignment of everyone in the sector is essential to developing the opportunity that exists.”

Mr Glover said the reliance on the international supply chain with both the effects of Covid disruption and the impacts of the current situation in India, is a corereason to strengthen the NZ supply chain internally.

“Coastal shipping ticks all the boxes, including resilience, lower carbon emissions and more job opportunities for Kiwis”.

“There is increasing awareness that moving goods around New Zealand by coastal ships reduces the carbon footprint for those goods because ships are efficient”.

For further comment:

Clive Glover, President 027 4444284

Annabel Young, Executive Director 021429216