Blue Highway: Government opens applications for $30m coastal shipping fund

Blue Highway: Government opens applications for $30m coastal shipping fund
The new $30m fund will invest in freight-supporting initiatives. (Image: Port of Auckland)
Oliver Lewis
Applications have opened for a $30 million contestable fund intended to improve the resilience of the coastal shipping sector.Associate Transport Minister James Meager made the long-awaited announcement at the NZ Marine Transport Association conference in Queenstown on Wednesday.Coastal shipping wasn’t mentioned in the draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport released early last year under Simeon Brown, who was transport minister at the time, but the $30m allocation was included in the final GPS released last June.Busines...

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