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Andrew Dickens: Why the problem with the Interislander isn't the boats
Cabinet today, and the promise this week is that we're going to get a ferry plan.
Apparently there might be an announcement on Wednesday.
It's been a year since Nicola Willis pulled the plug on the Kiwirail's ferry plan and it wasn't because the ferries were so expensive, in fact, these ferries were a really good deal. It was because of the cost of the port side developments.
And I think this is something that gets lost in the whole debate when we talk about it.
The ships weren't the problem. The misconception is that the cost was blowing out because the ferries were bigger than our previous…
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