Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Russell Brown,
Lordy, I appear to be almost agreeing with Hooten:
The container terminal should be closed, the land developed and Marsden Point and Tauranga expanded, together with rail links to Auckland.
The good news is that the Prime Minister now appears to be moving towards this position. See http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbpol/296948005-NZ-may-have-too-many-ports—Key
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Post at Te Standard picks up on the still-not-online SST story about whose rear the 12% target was plucked from.
- The 12% that someone assured the council could be achieved was based purely on cherry picking from specialised ports that bear no relationship to the Ports of Auckland operations. Somehow I bet that all of the information about ports that weren’t property companies, coastal shipping ports, or in high volume sea lanes was discarded before anyone in the council saw it.
- A more accurate comparison comparing like with like would have found that the Ports of Auckland was doing pretty well compared to its actual peers. Even in Hong Kong with one of the most heavily used ports areas in the world, and where Hutchinson seems to be largely based, the return on equity is about 7.7%, only slightly more than PoA’s 6+%.
- But how was it that this report was being misused for analyzing what Ports of Auckland’s forward strategy?
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to nzlemming,
because the RUCs make them unprofitable
and what more reason for reducing those charges does the govt need?
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Luke Williamson,
We've discussed the Puhoi-Wellsford lunacy in depth before and I won't resile from ridiculing what seems to be more about faster access to Orewa holiday homes and expanding Auckland's development north in the interests of rapacious property developers than any rational influence on Northland's economy. Beefing up Northport and rail links on the other hand..
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Russell Brown,
The relationship between the Port and the Waterfront Auckland development CCO chaired by Bob Harvey would be interesting to hear more about as well.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Those inland transfer ports mean the container wharf does not need to get larger to be able to handle more volume on and off ships. Storing containers and cars on prime waterfront land is ridiculous and wasteful.
I've heard somewhere over the last month a suggestion to keep Tauranga as export-focused and shift Auckland/Marsden to mainly import-focused, with rail linking all of them together. Fixing up the rail link north is not cheap but it is certainly much more so than Joyce's silly holiday highway.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Kumara Republic,
and another helping of misdirection that this would be in the interests of artists rather than the rights-holding corporations whose sun is setting.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to JacksonP,
bet The Edge (venue managers, not the radio station) would be interested in that shot
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I freed a cicada from a web on Thursday
why? they're a pest
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Muse: Freakanomics (TVNZ Edition), in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Mediawatch covered this today
36 minute show, listening options.