Subscribe to RSS feedKiwiRail accepts challenge to go ‘commercial’
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Dave MacIntyre
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Oct 29, 2009 03:42 PM
MUCH has been made of transport minister Steven Joyce’s statements that had the National Party been in power, it would not have bought the rail operation from Australian-based Toll Holdings.
Similarly, Mr Joyce’s comments that rail needed to aim for a more commercial approach and to balance its books eventually, without the $90m annual subsidy it now gets, have been portrayed as a hard-line approach.
A wider perspective however shows...
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