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Dire Strait: What’s gone wrong with our ferries?

Georgina Campbell
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Senior Multimedia Journalist·NZ Herald·
8 mins to read

Crossing the Cook Strait has been anything but smooth sailing. Dire Strait is an ongoing investigative series looking at the full saga and inside story of our interisland ferries, how they came to be in such a state of disrepair, and how it’ll all be fixed.

OPINION:

When the Interislander’s Kairahi suffered catastrophic damage to its gearbox in 2021, it marked the beginning of a tumultuous time for the Cook Strait ferries - the situation was so bad last month

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