{"id":319525,"date":"2025-11-20T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=601f31be789588e6ec027f5e7cd1d78a"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:11:45","slug":"new-cook-strait-ferries-to-cost-1-86-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=319525","title":{"rendered":"New Cook Strait ferries to cost $1.86 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A $600 million deal with a Chinese shipyard will bring the cost of replacing the Cook Strait ferries to $1.86 billion, the Government has confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rail Minister Winston Peters was at CentrePort in Wellington on Wednesday afternoon to confirm, nearly two years after the Government cancelled the&nbsp;previous iRex project&nbsp;due to cost blow outs, Ferry Holdings Limited had agreed to purchase two ferries from Guangzhou Shipyard International for $596 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total cost of replacing the KiwiRail-run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=interislander-ferry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"interislander Ferry\">Interislander ferries<\/a> will now be $1.86b, with the central government contribution being less than the $1.7b it had allocated for the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total cost of replacing the KiwiRail-run Interislander ferries will now be $1.86b.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":166439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,294,47],"tags":[14998],"class_list":["post-319525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiwirail","category-new-zealand","category-rail-news","tag-interislander-ferry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319794,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319525\/revisions\/319794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}