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    Ports Expansion

    in MarineTalk

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    Do you happen to know the number re people that are employed with the Auckland's ports activities  and ancillary businesses associated with the port at Auckland. 

     

    No

     

     

    How many people would have too relocate to Whagarei Marsden Point Area to satisfy how many objectors / protesters not to mention the economic .monetary loss to the Auckland Council. Auckland region. Would they petition the Govt for another 2 billion dollars for a rail connection and motorways to transport

     YES, they could use the election bribe money on bridges as seed money to get it started.

     

    the stuff to Auckland or have a enlarged local fleet Smaller cargo vessels to freight to Auckland. Who would pay for the coastal shipping co fleet. What  coastal shipping there is are owned and operated by overseas owned vessels. Various govt have allowed NZ's owned coastal ships to disappear to foreign freight companies which now deliver direct. Any guesses how much they would have to increase Aucklanders  rates to compensate and the additional freight  costs  that would be passed on to the consumer .

     

    If you read my post you would see I did not suggest anything, but for the sake of argument let's say I did. Nobody would have to relocate if they didn't want to, though many probably would. PoA would not be shut down overnight, if at all. If the volume of shipping is increasing beyond the capacity of Auckland then it makes sense to build a new container facility in addition. If successful it could supplant Auckland entirely but that would take a long time. To use your own words -that's usual business practice.

     

    Then another protest to protest about rate increases which you are already complaining about and you get stagnation.

     

     

    No further increase with Auckland's population and all immigrants and NZ's have to settle elsewhere and not the Auckland greater region.

     

    Would you allow Staff with a job transfer to settle within the Auckland greater region.?

     

     

    Could be worth while. Would not even be considered.

     

    Len Brown has been quoted as, that he has requested a economic future growth impact report.

     

    Unintelligible so no comment.

     

    It may be found the present extensions are short sighted / conservative judging by the size on the new container ships and cruise liners now being built

     

    True, all the more reason to look at all alternatives

    Some posters seem to be posting just for the sake on making a post with not much thought.

     

    ROFLMAO

     

     

    OC

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    Ports Expansion

    in MarineTalk

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    Haven't we just had weeeks of hearing bloody politicians tell us Northland needs economic growth and jobs. Seems that developing a container port at Marsden Point would be a great start???

     

     

    BTW, I do remember as a teenager in Whangarei the Chairman of the Northland Harbour Board (yes children - once upon a time these things were owned by the people and were administered by elected officials who were held accountable every three years, how quaint) fighting to have the new container port built at Marsden Point. His argument was that it would outgrow the available space in Auckland and be a huge problem. He lost amid cries of cronyism and political chicanery. Seems he was prescient. Can't remember his name now - Barry someone??

    New to cruising - what would you have on board?

    in MarineTalk

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    Someone said on here a while ago which I thought was spot on.  Dont second guess . Sail it for a season and it will all become crystal clear.

    +1 Just go sailing. We are coming up to 3 years now without doing anything (as a result of the deal I did with the previous owner - we will own her outright in Oct this year). In that time the work list has actually shrunk as I have realised that what the designer and previous owners had already was working pretty well.

    Govt money approved

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    Nothing personal here AJ, but my sister lives in the US and last time she visited we tried to compare income and taxes as accurately as we could.

    We concluded Americans pay very much the same percentage of income in tax as NZ'ers do (albeit under different guises and different names).

    But then they have to pay again for things like education and health care, which here are funded by taxes. As far as we could figure out the difference was your enormous military bill. Or in other words if you cut back the military spend you could offer free comprehensive health care and free education to every US citizen (and have quite a bit left over).

    Govt money approved

    in RaceTalk

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    I'm still curious as to why Ketchup is so animated over something of so little concern. Even the taxpayers money is a piddling amount in the greater scheme of things. Hell if I was going to bitch about govt spending I'd say stay out of the middle east. Go figure.

    Sewerage Treatment Systems

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    I like the composting one because it is cleaner and simpler. Maybe explain that to the family. How many times does one have to spend a beautiful day anchored in paradise disassembling a bloody toilet to think that there has to be a better way.

     

    my wife hates the old one as much as I do.

    Sewerage Treatment Systems

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    Viewed objectively there is nothing more absurd than the usual sea-going toilet of the modern production yacht. What expense and engineering, what a profligate use of space and materials, what a baroque concoction of pipes and valves and pumps and skin fittings, what a sop to over-developed human sensitivities, all for the purpose of transferring a small amount of matter a distance of about twelve inches, from here on the inside of the hull, to there on the outside of the hull.

    -- From Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing by Roger D. Taylor

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