A ferry way forward

1 News reports:

The Government’s independent advisory group has recommended brand new Cook Strait ferries, similar in size to the current fleet, 1News understands. 

Last week, Ministers received a report from the group in which it’s understood options were laid out for the specifications of the new ferries and when they could arrive. 

The group has recommended that the ferries be smaller than the proposed iRex ferries and not rail-enabled, although rail would still be able to be shunted onto the vessels as often happened now.

In other words, ferries that would not require $2 billion to be spent on new ports, would not be banned from the Tory Channel as being too big, and would have the same capacity as present.

doesn’t seem like rocket science.