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What assessment, if any, has been made of the effect of port fees payable under the new arrangements on freight rates across Cook Strait, compared with fees payable under the current arrangements?

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Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

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  • What assessment, if any, has been made of the effect of port fees payable under the new arrangements on freight rates across Cook Strait, compared with fees payable under the current arrangements?

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Rt Hon Winston Peters

List MP · NZ First · Minister for Rail

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Considerable assessment, which you can read more about in this speech: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/common-sense-back-helm