56359 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister for Rail

56359 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister for Rail: How many additional geotechnical surveys are required for the landside infrastructure supporting the new ferries, and by what date must they be completed to avoid delays to the 2029 commissioning timeline?

Rt Hon Winston Peters: There is no specific schedule of geotechnical surveys, as these are commissioned on an as-needed basis between Ferry Holdings and the ports. Both ports are long-established port operations, so a large supply of geotechnical information is already available from the ports from works completed under iReX and geotechnical surveys completed this year.