So about IREX
Ferry shutdown: More Bluebridge sailings cancelled
Ferry shutdown: More Bluebridge sailings cancelled
The Connemara ferry has now been out of action for more than a week.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 29, 2026 at 4:25 AM
So about IREX
ADD THIS COST TO THE FERRIES BECAUSE ITS BECAUSE OF THE CANCELLATION OF IREX.
#TransportNews: KiwiRail is offering freight customers an Auckland-to-Christchurch coastal shipping service to ease pressure on constrained Cook Strait capacity.
Via BusinessDesk: businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr...
Via BusinessDesk: businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr...
Cook Strait crunch: KiwiRail reboots coastal shipping service
KiwiRail is offering freight customers an Auckland-to-Christchurch coastal shipping service to ease pressure on constrained Cook Strait capacity.The workaround,...
businessdesk.co.nz
April 24, 2026 at 1:36 AM
ADD THIS COST TO THE FERRIES BECAUSE ITS BECAUSE OF THE CANCELLATION OF IREX.
Seems IREX was cheaper after all (hint, it always was) 👇
March 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Seems IREX was cheaper after all (hint, it always was) 👇
A reminder that at least one of the iReX ferries would be in operation already, had Willis not cancelled them.
#FerryNews: Rail Minister Winston Peters privately asked KiwiRail to investigate acquiring an additional Interislander ferry to bolster the strained Cook Strait service, less than two weeks after publicly insisting “it would not make sense” to do so.
Via NZH: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
Via NZH: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
Peters privately explored new Interislander ferry after saying one 'would not make sense'
A letter shows he asked officials to look into buying or chartering a third ferry.
www.nzherald.co.nz
July 14, 2026 at 3:40 AM
A reminder that at least one of the iReX ferries would be in operation already, had Willis not cancelled them.
AAAAAGH they're still going to have to replace the entire Picton Portside because it was munted and that's what iRex was doing, they're still going to have to build temporary buildings while they do that and that's what iRex was doing, they're going to need mor shit at Wellington and that's what iRe
March 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
AAAAAGH they're still going to have to replace the entire Picton Portside because it was munted and that's what iRex was doing, they're still going to have to build temporary buildings while they do that and that's what iRex was doing, they're going to need mor shit at Wellington and that's what iRe
We'd have the iRex ferries by now...
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Fun little nugget here, for three months in 2026 there's only going to be ONE interislander ferry running. This time last year there were 3. Amazing.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
April 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
We'd have the iRex ferries by now...
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12 billion dollars or four iRex, or four Dunedin Hospitals, in the common parlance.
April 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
12 billion dollars or four iRex, or four Dunedin Hospitals, in the common parlance.
We could be using the iRex ferries by now
August 15, 2026 at 7:23 AM
We could be using the iRex ferries by now
We dumped $671 million in the toilet ditching iRex, so add that to the $1.8 billion this wasteful vandalism has cost AND YOU GET TO ABOUT WHAT IREX COST IN 2023. AND THE WORK HASNT PROPERLY STARTED YET. AAAAAAAAAAGH
March 11, 2026 at 4:36 AM
We dumped $671 million in the toilet ditching iRex, so add that to the $1.8 billion this wasteful vandalism has cost AND YOU GET TO ABOUT WHAT IREX COST IN 2023. AND THE WORK HASNT PROPERLY STARTED YET. AAAAAAAAAAGH
Es gibt übrigens ein Institut für Rechtsextremismusforschung (IRex) an der Universität Tübingen mit viel Expertise. Ich wäre froh, wenn deren Sachkenntnis mehr Gehör finden würde in der aktuellen Debatte nach Sachsen-Anhalt.
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Institut für Rechtsextremismusforschung
uni-tuebingen.de
September 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Es gibt übrigens ein Institut für Rechtsextremismusforschung (IRex) an der Universität Tübingen mit viel Expertise. Ich wäre froh, wenn deren Sachkenntnis mehr Gehör finden würde in der aktuellen Debatte nach Sachsen-Anhalt.
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
And to think the first IREX Ferry would be in month 3 of its revenue sailings
Connemara cancellations will impact freight companies -Transport NZ
Connemara cancellations will impact freight companies -Transport NZ
BlueBridge has extended cancellations with the ferry no longer expected to resume services until at least Tuesday evening.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 30, 2026 at 12:20 AM
And to think the first IREX Ferry would be in month 3 of its revenue sailings
The first IREX boat would be in revenue service by now
The second end of the year
The second end of the year
Embarrassing, quite why Nicola Willis has been allowed a get out of jail free card on this debacle is beyond me
"Cook Strait ferry service's reputation for unreliability among overseas tour operators"
#kikorangi
"Cook Strait ferry service's reputation for unreliability among overseas tour operators"
#kikorangi
'Word travels': Cook Strait ferry service's reputation for unreliability among overseas tour operators
Fed-up tour operators are sounding the alarm on ferry services, saying tourists are now avoiding parts of the country.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The first IREX boat would be in revenue service by now
The second end of the year
The second end of the year
I’d just like to remind everyone that the first iRex ferry would have just entered service had the coalition not cancelled them purely out of spite for the opposition, Wellington and the South Island.
January 12, 2026 at 5:48 AM
I’d just like to remind everyone that the first iRex ferry would have just entered service had the coalition not cancelled them purely out of spite for the opposition, Wellington and the South Island.
ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
Given all the really important shit that this government says we "can't afford" it's amazing what they manage to find money for.
'Strategic energy security asset': Govt reveals plans for $1b LNG import facility
Luxon warned New Zealand is experiencing swiftly declining gas supply.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
Your reminder until Nikki No Boats got her hands on the project, the iRex Interislander project would be more than 2/3rds completed & due for full opening next year.
#FriendsDontLetFriendsVoteConservative
#FriendsDontLetFriendsVoteConservative
#FerryNews: As one of Wellington’s ferries temporarily travels to Singapore, the fleet operator KiwiRail says it’s working on options to expand passenger capacity on its two remaining vessels.
Via The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...
Via The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...
KiwiRail investigates options to boost ferry capacity
It comes as summer sailings continue to be booked at pace, with some times for December only having a few spots for vehicles left.
www.thepost.co.nz
June 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Your reminder until Nikki No Boats got her hands on the project, the iRex Interislander project would be more than 2/3rds completed & due for full opening next year.
#FriendsDontLetFriendsVoteConservative
#FriendsDontLetFriendsVoteConservative
#BHN The break fee for cancelling the iRex ferries is $300m...and remember the cost of the ferries by themselves was only $551m
#nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social
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#nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social
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#BHN The break fee for cancelling the iRex ferries is $300m
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March 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
#BHN The break fee for cancelling the iRex ferries is $300m...and remember the cost of the ferries by themselves was only $551m
#nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social
youtu.be/oZtiyc47gps
#nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social
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iRex would have cost less than the tax break for landlords and we'd have actual fucking infrastructure
#nzpol
#nzpol
So.. cancelling basically every civil project causes some slowdown to the economy.. brought to you by the party of [checks notes] business...
May 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
iRex would have cost less than the tax break for landlords and we'd have actual fucking infrastructure
#nzpol
#nzpol
Someone should ask Winston if it's more or less of a waste of money than spending $671 million to scrap iRex.
he might actually be right. who's to say what kind of novel solution some european or chinese outfit might come up with that we don't know about to consider. why tie their hands? it's pretty normal to have designers etc pitch ideas for bulldings and so on. www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/18/p...
Peters calls harbour crossing report a gross waste of money
More than $106 million has been spent on consultants and contractors to date, but there is still no plan for what should be built and how.
www.1news.co.nz
August 18, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Someone should ask Winston if it's more or less of a waste of money than spending $671 million to scrap iRex.
There was no business case for cancelling iRex
April 14, 2026 at 1:26 AM
There was no business case for cancelling iRex
Four years after iREX
It was previously not known when exactly in 2029 the new ships would enter service on Cook Strait.
New Cook Strait ferries set to arrive in April and October 2029
It was previously not known when exactly in 2029 the new ships would enter service on Cook Strait.
dlvr.it
July 24, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Four years after iREX
That idiot who is our Finance Minister pulled the pin on the iRex project without reading any of the previous policy analysis that led to iRex. If she had read it, she would have realised that iRex was value for money but no, they’re so fucked in the head with their own hubris 🤬
March 19, 2026 at 2:53 AM
That idiot who is our Finance Minister pulled the pin on the iRex project without reading any of the previous policy analysis that led to iRex. If she had read it, she would have realised that iRex was value for money but no, they’re so fucked in the head with their own hubris 🤬
Fun Ferry Fact: Part of iRex was ensuring rail enabled freight was maintained during port upgrades through to 2026 when the new ferries arrived.
Fun Ferry Fact: Cancelling iRex and the Ferries to "save money" means a four year gap in crucial transport on a crossing that takes $40 billion each year
Fun Ferry Fact: Cancelling iRex and the Ferries to "save money" means a four year gap in crucial transport on a crossing that takes $40 billion each year
August 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fun Ferry Fact: Part of iRex was ensuring rail enabled freight was maintained during port upgrades through to 2026 when the new ferries arrived.
Fun Ferry Fact: Cancelling iRex and the Ferries to "save money" means a four year gap in crucial transport on a crossing that takes $40 billion each year
Fun Ferry Fact: Cancelling iRex and the Ferries to "save money" means a four year gap in crucial transport on a crossing that takes $40 billion each year
Lmao they've definitely burned a billion dollars cancelling iRex and Auckland Light Rail.
Is an $800m fuckup enough to get you sacked?
Not by spineless Luzon thats for sure
This is before we've even bought the ferries now
#nzpol
www.nbr.co.nz/infrastructu...
Not by spineless Luzon thats for sure
This is before we've even bought the ferries now
#nzpol
www.nbr.co.nz/infrastructu...
Govt nearly $800m in the red over cancelled interisland ferries - NBR | The Authority since 1970
The National Business Review Online is New Zealand's authority in breaking business news and analysis.
www.nbr.co.nz
March 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Lmao they've definitely burned a billion dollars cancelling iRex and Auckland Light Rail.