Transmission Gully contractor lodges material claim against NZTA

Transmission Gully contractor lodges material claim against NZTA
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth June 7 (BusinessDesk) - With less than a year until it’s scheduled to open, the contractor tasked with building and maintaining the 27-kilometre Transmission Gully highway north of Wellington has lodged a claim big enough for the New Zealand Transport Agency to acknowledge it in its quarterly reports. The Crown entity noted the “material claim” as a contingent liability in its second-quarter performance report, saying it received the notice from Wellington Gateway Partnership in February of this year in relation to the publ...

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