{"id":70679,"date":"2024-06-20T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=4223243f56c016effb259d714bc0254f"},"modified":"2024-06-20T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:00:59","slug":"government-unimpressed-with-maintenance-of-cook-strait-interislander-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=70679","title":{"rendered":"Government unimpressed with maintenance of Cook Strait Interislander ferries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister Simeon Brown says the Government has been \u201chighly unimpressed\u201d with KiwiRail\u2019s maintenance of\u00a0its Interislander ferry fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The future of the ferries\u00a0was the first question Brown faced at a Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee meeting this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said the Government was committed to a resilient Cook Strait service but ministers also wanted to see KiwiRail maintain its existing ships to the appropriate standards.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the\u00a0*Herald*\u00a0reported\u00a0annual maintenance costs to keep the ferries running could almost double to $65 million by next year, and keeping the ferries afloat will be an \u201congoing battle\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister Simeon Brown says the Government has been \u201chighly unimpressed\u201d with KiwiRail\u2019s maintenance of\u00a0its Interislander ferry fleet. The future of th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70679","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=70679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70680,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70679\/revisions\/70680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}