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To read in full https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=New+Zealand
From the New Zealand Herald today:
The Government has announced $600,000 to investigate emergency towing options for Cook Strait which the maritime union says is an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff.
There was no word in the Budget on what will replace Interislander’s cancelled mega ferries and Treasury says exiting the contract to build them is a fiscal risk.
Last week the Herald revealed the Government was considering advice on improving emergency towing after two recent mayday calls. There is no emergency towing vessel on standby in New Zealand to help large ships in strife.
Interislander’s Kaitaki ferry narrowly avoided disaster after it lost power in Cook Strait and started drifting towards Wellington’s rocky south coast with 864 people on board. It’s unknown how harbour tugs sent to the ship’s aid would have fared should their assistance have been required.
You wait ages for a ferry story, then three appear in the same morning.
I’ve now done upwards of a hundred ferry reports exposing deeply flawed – unreliable, costly, dangerous – services from New Zealand, through Greece and England to the US and Canada. I’m now in no doubt. Scotland’s publicly-owned CalMac is the best in the world.
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