Quote Originally Posted by traineeinvestor View Post
Thanks for posting. A couple of quotes:

[FONT="]"Previous studies have noted dredging would have to be done annually, but Young said continuous dredging would be required and both the channel and the entrance to the harbour would need to be dredged."
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"Brown said UNSCIS had dismissed Manukau Harbour right at the start based on safety concerns after it received a warning from the insurance industry that it would not insure ships that docked at Manukau Harbour."

I would assume that either of these issues would be sufficient to kill any thoughts of turning Manukau into Auckland's port.
Politics - a complete and utter $2m waste of taxpayers' money. Who are the muppets who wrote this report?