News in Brief
News in Brief
Stats NZ confident March quarter CPI data is robust
Almost half of the prices collected for Stats NZ's consumers price index are done by field collectors in-store, something that was halted by the covid-19 lockdown.Most of the quarterly collection had been completed when the covid-19 lockdown began to impact, Stats NZ said. “We ha...
Infrastructure
Auckland Airport passengers plunge 42%
Auckland International Airport’s passenger volumes almost halved during March, falling 42 percent to 1.08 million, as travel restrictions were imposed by the government to contain the covid-19 outbreak. International passengers were down 43.2 percent at 513,455, while domestic pa...
Infrastructure
Napier container volumes up
Napier Port handled the equivalent of 135,000 twenty-foot containers in the six months through March, 7.5 percent more than a year earlier.Export containers were marginally higher at 60,000 TEUs, while imports rose by 9.3 percent to 69,000 due to earlier import repositioning of e...
Don't rush lockdown exit - CTU
The Council of Trade Unions has warned against rushing out of lockdown too quickly, saying a resurgence in the virus outbreak would be bad for public health and the economy.President Richard Wagstaff told Parliament’s epidemic response committee that while there was an expectatio...
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