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NZ exporters fear harvest season due to shipping woes
Coronavirus

NZ exporters fear harvest season due to shipping woes

International shippers are riding a post covid cycle of high demand and shipping backlogs – pushing shipping prices to new highs. That's if you can get onto a ship at all, exporters say.

Brent Melville 18 Jan 2022
Union to govt: keep NZ oil tankers
Transport

Union to govt: keep NZ oil tankers

New Zealand's last two locally flagged oil tankers will be out of work from April.

Oliver Lewis 14 Jan 2022
'Pick winners' or coastal shipping plan won't float – Dunphy
Markets

'Pick winners' or coastal shipping plan won't float – Dunphy

Move Logistics says its expanding its coastal shipping business with or without government support – but says subsidised sailings won't help the industry.

Brent Melville 12 Jan 2022
Dusty work: inner city businesses 'forgotten', abandoned
Retail

Dusty work: inner city businesses 'forgotten', abandoned

Auckland businesses have been left behind in a swirl of dust and unable to run, considered as collateral damage – all in the name of progress.

Brent Melville 05 Jan 2022


Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis

Infrastructure Editor

Oliver Lewis won the local government reporting category at the 2023 Voyager Media Awards. He is part of our investigations unit and also covers infrastructure, housing and employment issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, Oliver has also written for the Guardian and North & South. 

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