MMH - Marsden Maritime Holdings

[GTM 3442]

Who knows if the port will ever move north. But if it does, then I see three things:

A whole bunch of land coming available on the Auckland waterfront, and a never-ending series of reports, proposals, reviews, plans and counterplans, with nothing happening for a decade or more. With at least one debt issue to fund the fiasco.

A massive infrastructure spend to connect the port to the national transport/logistics network. Funded, hopefully, by a series of debt issues.

A big redevelopment of the poet, with calls on shareholders capital, as well as at least two debt issues.

So I see this as an opportunity for some well-structured debt investments from a number of players, and as a series of capital-raisings by the port itself.

Plenty of time to wait for another share-based infrastructure yield play to come onto the market, no hurry to buy MMH for at least ten years or more.

[Balance]

Who knows if the port will ever move north. But if it does, then I see three things:

A whole bunch of land coming available on the Auckland waterfront, and a never-ending series of reports, proposals, reviews, plans and counterplans, with nothing happening for a decade or more. With at least one debt issue to fund the fiasco.

A massive infrastructure spend to connect the port to the national transport/logistics network. Funded, hopefully, by a series of debt issues.

A big redevelopment of the poet, with calls on shareholders capital, as well as at least two debt issues.

So I see this as an opportunity for some well-structured debt investments from a number of players, and as a series of capital-raisings by the port itself.

Plenty of time to wait for another share-based infrastructure yield play to come onto the market, no hurry to buy MMH for at least ten years or more.

Do some research - best one is how Sydney shifted port operations from Darling Harbour to Port Botany.

[Scrunch]

Who knows if the port will ever move north. But if it does, then I see three things:
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A massive infrastructure spend to connect the port to the national transport/logistics network. Funded, hopefully, by a series of debt issues.
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I think you are partly correct, however the debt issues will IMO be bulk-standard NZ Treasury issue's to raise cash.

The news link below notes that the government intends to borrow an extra $12 billion for "capital infrastructure like schools, transport networks and hospitals over the next five year."
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...cid=spartanntp

While schools and hospitals can undoubtably gobble several billion, doing much more than that, beyond current plans, within the next five years would be difficult. That indicates the bulk of the additional money goes into transport networks. Guess what transport network needs a lot of funding if its to be improved?

[GTM 3442]

Do some research - best one is how Sydney shifted port operations from Darling Harbour to Port Botany.

How was it funded?

[Marilyn Munroe]

i was surprised at the lack of any go ahead given to shovel ready projects in Grant Robertson's infrastructure spending announcement.

I would have expected him to at least announce sipping a bung to Kiwi Rail for them to get on with engineering investigations for the Marsden Point rail spur.

I hope this infrastructure imitative doesn't turn into Kiwi Build MK II.

Boop boop de do
Marilyn

[Balance]

How was it funded?

Government funded.

[Balance]

Looking forward to the release of the Report today and what the government intends to do to make the shift happen:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-in...-auckland-move

Go NZF!

Go NZ!

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[RTM]

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I would have expected him to at least announce sipping a bung to Kiwi Rail for them to get on with engineering investigations for the Marsden Point rail spur.
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Boop boop de do
Marilyn

I understood that this work was already underway. Be good to know what the outcome is. I also thought I saw somewhere that the peaty nature of the land might make it more difficult. Can't verify the second bit.

"KiwiRail begins geo-tech studies for Northport spur line"

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU18...-spur-line.htm

[RTM]

I understood that this work was already underway. Be good to know what the outcome is. I also thought I saw somewhere that the peaty nature of the land might make it more difficult. Can't verify the second bit.

"KiwiRail begins geo-tech studies for Northport spur line"

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU18...-spur-line.htm

More info....
https://www.kiwirail.co.nz/what-we-d...-rejuvenation/

"This follows a $2.2 million investment to undertake geotechnical and other assessments along the route of a proposed spur line to Marsden Point and Northport, which was completed in early 2019."

[Aaron]

I understood that this work was already underway. Be good to know what the outcome is. I also thought I saw somewhere that the peaty nature of the land might make it more difficult. Can't verify the second bit.

"KiwiRail begins geo-tech studies for Northport spur line"

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU18...-spur-line.htm

I did hear of a subdivision in the Ruakaka area where the Drainage all moved not long after the work was completed. Not sure if it was a developer cutting costs or the peaty nature of the land, probably both.

Shane Jones rushed to hospital from over work and exhaustion and looking at his jowls maybe a bit over weight as well. Hopefully it is due to the excitement around his big announcement today. Or all the hard out lobbying he has done to get his project through.