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FUNDS * New Zealand - Truckers say shipping funding unfair
The organisation representing the trucking industry says taking money from road users and throwing it into coastal shipping is unacceptable
Auckland,New Zealand -Newstalk ZB -21 May 2008: -- ... The Government has announced it will put $36 million over the next four years into coastal shipping, as part of its Sea Change strategy... But Simon Tapper, director of the Road Transport Forum, says the funding was paid in good faith by road users and is urgently needed to improve roads. He says it is unfair to expect family-owned trucking companies to subsidise a competing mode of transport through road user charges when it could end up taking their business away... Mr Tapper believes the shipping funding means roading projects will be put on the back burner because there will be less money available to fund them...
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