“New Zealand is becoming a helpless observer of its own transport system, watching freight dollars drain away overseas instead of building local wealth and jobs.”

Mr Findlay says the situation is a direct downstream outcome of the disastrous decision by Finance Minister Nicola Willis to cancel the iRex ferry deal.
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