The airport is confident people are becoming travel-hungry again but won't be considering a dividend until the end of its 2023 financial year.
The dual-listed trans-Tasman steel group is banking on a solid year and the move into aluminium to back a modest rise in profits.
If NZ's currency hadn't fallen out of bed against the greenback, manufactured steel prices would be coming down.
Brown wants the port to operate more efficiently and return waterfront land to the public for other uses.
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