Meet your new Interislander ferries (maybe)

Meet your new Interislander ferries (maybe)
A Stena RoRo E-flexer ferry built for long-term charter to Brittany Ferries. (Image: Stena RoRo)
Oliver Lewis
In less than a week, the Government is set to reveal its long-awaited plan to replace the ageing Interislander ferry fleet.Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Finance Minister Nicola Willis have said a decision will be announced by Dec 11, almost exactly a year after the coalition Government declined to provide additional funding to KiwiRail for its Interislander replacement project (iReX).By that point, the project, which included two new rail-enabled ferries, had increased in cost from an approved budget of $1.45 billion to around $3b.&n...

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