Puhoi to Warkworth motorway delayed seven months

Puhoi to Warkworth motorway delayed seven months
Dan Brunskill
The Puhoi to Warkworth motorway is now scheduled to open in mid-May 2022 after the New Zealand Transport Agency and Fletcher Building reached an agreement on how to manage the covid-19-related delays. The agreement includes a payment of $85 million to Fletcher and joint-venture partner Acciona Concesiones to cover the cost of delays and other impacts of the shutdown, and is on top of an earlier payment of $83 million to cover pre-covid delays. In 2018, Fletcher said it wasn’t making any profit on the project. The public-private partnershi...

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