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Urgent need to get new ferries built, before current ones fail

Winston Peters is expected to make announcement at end of March on next steps on the beleaguered interislander ferry replacements.

The Government is still deciding what will replace the now abandoned iRex ferry project.

Brent Edwards Tue, 04 Mar 2025

Just two days before Winston Peters was announced as a shareholder in a limited liability company responsible for procuring new Cook Strait ferries, a Cabinet decision on the matter made no mention of him.

The Cabinet paper dated December 9 last year confirmed ministers had agreed to set up the new

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Brent Edwards Tue, 04 Mar 2025
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