Table 2

Interview questions (freight users)

Question categoriesQuestions
Respondent
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    What are your job responsibilities?

Normal operations
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    Can you describe your normal transport operations between the North and South Islands?

Past disruptions
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    How did past natural events disrupt your transport operations?

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    What was the impact of these disruptions and how were they addressed?

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    What did you and your team learn from these events?

Cook Strait ferry outage
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    How would a three-month Cook Strait ferry outage impact your operations?

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    What transport-related consequences would a two-day power outage, and five-day phone and internet outage in Wellington and Picton have?

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    What transport-related shortages would surface during an extended Cook Strait ferry outage?

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    What would be the weakest point(s) in NZ’s freight system during an extended Cook Strait ferry outage, and why?

Potential solutions
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    How would freight transport operations need to be adjusted to keep goods moving during the three-month ferry outage?

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    What alternative transport modes would be used to continue moving goods between the North and South Islands?

Resilience
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    Do you think the resilience of NZ’s transport network should be improved, and if so, how?

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