Source: Ministry of Transport (2014). National Freight Demand Study 2014.
What is freighted by road? @TransportBlog @JulieAnneGenter
26 May 2016 Leave a comment
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What is freighted by rail? @TransportBlog @JulieAnneGenter
25 May 2016 Leave a comment
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The Greens want to expand rail freight but stop mining coal which is 1/5 of rail tonnage.
Source: Ministry of Transport (2014). National Freight Demand Study 2014.
@jamespeshaw what do coastal ships ship when they ship 4.2 million tonnes per year?
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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If coastal shipping is going to double its freight capacity, and certainly going to need some new ships because the existing ships are unsuited to taking over the current business of road freight.
Source: Ministry of Transport (2014). National Freight Demand Study 2014.
@JulieAnneGenter only 21% of freight is contestable by rail
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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Source: International freight transport services | Productivity Commission of New Zealand.
Source: International freight transport services | Productivity Commission of New Zealand.
@jamespeshaw only 8% of freight is contestable by coastal shipping
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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Shipping offers only a tiny bit of competition the rail freight but barely any with road freight
Source: International freight transport services | Productivity Commission of New Zealand.
@JulieAnneGenter road, rail & ships are not substitute modes
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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@jamespeshaw how many domestic shipping services in NZ? 16!
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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Of the 4.2 billion million tons of annual coastal shipping in New Zealand, 2.32 million tons of that is petroleum products. The majority of coastal shipping is petroleum products redistributed from the one refinery in New Zealand to the rest of the country. You can’t double that which the Greens wanted to because it is already at its upper limit.
Source: Coastal shipping and modal freight choice | NZ Transport Agency.
@JulieAnneGenter doesn’t know what is shipped through ports
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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The Greens today announced a policy to double the amounts of cargo moved by train and shipping. It seems to have forgotten that most cargo moved by ship is bulk cargoes such as cars. Nothing can change the fact that once the ship is unloaded, the cars have to go by truck to the car yard.
Source: New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. Port study 2 Final report NZIER report to Auckland Council (3 February 2015).
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