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i-Rex ferries would have started arriving today

Written By: - Date published: 3:36 pm, December 13th, 2025 - 5 comments

NZ previously secured next-gen, hybrid ferries for 40% less than market price during Covid. The cancellation of these partially built 2026 ferries resulted in a loss of $700m to more than $1bn

Prebble out of step with Mainfreight board

Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, May 6th, 2008 - 23 comments

This morning on Breakfast Prebble called the government buy-back of trains and ferries “loony”. What’s alarming is that Prebble is on Mainfreight’s board of directors. His comments appear to put him seriously out of step with Mainfreight’s chief executive Don Braid, who commented: Provided the Government manages it [the rail operations] in a commercial way […]