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Paul Koch: Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Vice President on the GDP increase · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm repressed, but zero point seven seemed a very
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  Speaker 2: good number to me. We're out of recession, and the
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  Speaker 2: number was higher than any one forecast growth was to
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  Speaker 2: be found, especially in transport, postal warehousing. They had a
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  Speaker 2: two point four percent number for the quarter alone. Charted
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  Speaker 2: Institute of Logistics and Transport Vice president Paul coshures where
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  Speaker 2: there's Paul morning in Mike, how are you very well?
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  Speaker 2: Are you feeling it? You're seeing it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I have. It's very interesting. Actually, I was talking
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  Speaker 3: to one of my friends who owns a company in
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  Speaker 3: Auckland and tower On and I was only talking to
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  Speaker 3: him on Wednesday, and he said, Paul, you won't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: My business has taken off in the last three months.
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  Speaker 3: Good and he's actually opening a new warehouse and Tarana Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was my next question. Do you think this
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  Speaker 2: leads to something?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely? Definitely there's in talking to a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that I know in the industry, obviously they're definitely seeing
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  Speaker 3: a lift in some cases as much as ten percent.
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  Speaker 3: I know the increase was only about two and a
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  Speaker 3: half percent, as you alluded to. But there's some companies
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  Speaker 3: that are doing way better than others, obviously, can you.
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  Speaker 2: Break that down. I mean, just for everybody else who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't follow this as go logistics and transport transport, we
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  Speaker 2: understand who do you represent? I mean, what sort of
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  Speaker 2: businesses are you dealing with?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're dealing with any transport operator, any warehousing come three,
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  Speaker 3: pl four pl Our members are quite diverse. We also
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  Speaker 3: talk to the ports. Our president is he works for
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  Speaker 3: the Port of Auckland and I'm in towering on myself
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  Speaker 3: and my background is thirty to fifty years of transport
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  Speaker 3: through mainly the tracking industry. But yes, I can say
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  Speaker 3: quite honestly that there's definitely been a list and I
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  Speaker 3: hear about these things all the time because I obviously
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  Speaker 3: my network is quite diverse. And yeah, it's very very
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  Speaker 3: interesting and really very exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Good on. You're Paul glad to hear something positive. Don't
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  Speaker 2: text me. He represents a lot of people. Paul Kosh,
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  Speaker 2: who's with the Charted Institute of Logistics and Transport more
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  Speaker 2: good News.
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