“We have noticed there is always people coming and going, and it does seem like New Zealanders are still willing to travel their own country, she said. “So if we make the most of the New Zealanders who are travelling and get the support of the locals, by the time hopefully the borders open and the cruise ships are coming back, we will be all ready to go.
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Taylor, left, and Daniel Hamilton said if they could survive without international tourists it could only get better. “Everyone is telling us when cruise ships used to be here you could never move around in the street, the town was packed, so just to think that it can be potentially like that is really exciting, and not just for a small business owner, also for the community.”
Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why.
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Representatives from New Zealand s two largest trucking associations say the culprit could be Port Marlborough s parking fees, but the port suspects truckies like being near their accommodation in Picton.
Whatever the reason, residents in the port town are divided on whether a solution should be worked into its redevelopment project, needed to make way for KiwiRail s new, larger Cook Strait ferries.
Residents have already given up part of an old rugby pitch for a truck stop after roads damaged by the Kaikōura earthquake left trucks arriving out of sync with ferries, and waiting around town.
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Truck driver Peter Griffin is one of several Nelson Square residents unbothered by large freight trucks parking nearby.
Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why. Representatives from New Zealand s two largest trucking associations says the culprit could be Port Marlborough s parking fees, but the port suspects truckies like being near their accommodation in Picton. Whatever the reason, residents in the port town are divided on whether a solution should be worked into its redevelopment project, needed to make way for KiwiRail’s new, larger Cook Strait ferries.
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Marine operations manager and Pilot for Port Marlborough Matt Conyers, left, and Port Marlborough Tug Master Mike Beech were among the first in Marlborough to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine.
Many breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday as the first of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccines began to roll out to port workers and their families at Port Marlborough. Some 35 frontline port workers at Port Marlborough were under the needle on Wednesday, and the DHB expects to vaccinate approximately 70 more, plus around 300 household contacts in this first round. Among the first to receive their jabs were marine operations manager and Pilot for Port Marlborough Matt Conyers and Port Marlborough Tug Master Mike Beech.
News from Nelson Marlborough Health
Front-line Port Nelson and Port Marlborough workers will be the first in our region to receive COVID-19 vaccine, starting on 1 March and 3 March respectively. The people they live with will also be vaccinated and, with the two doses required for all parties.
Front-line Port Nelson and Port Marlborough workers will be the first in our region to receive COVID-19 vaccine, starting on 1 March and 3 March respectively.
The people they live with will also be vaccinated and, with the two doses required for all parties and three weeks required in between doses, the complete programme will take several weeks.