Andrew Dickens: The new ferries we know nothing about, but will be paying for

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 11, 2024 · 2m · transcript

Well that was confusing. When Nicola Willis blew up Kiwirail’s plan for new ferries she promised a better plan, and yesterday we got that plan.

They're going to form a new company to buy some ferries. No news about which ferries and what format they’re in.

Nothing about what’s happening portside.

There was also an invitation to private industry to come up with a better solution.

So no new ferries, no new ports, no ships ordered, and no idea that private industry already provides a service, that is Bluebridge.

It was an announcement of an announcement, which we already lampooned the last…