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  I think you'll find that there's more to that story than meets the eye Howard. Also Ferry companies may not be quite as pleased as you might think. There's no real change in DHB approach to tariffs or in the way that they 'negotiate' increases (I parenthasise negotiate because there's not much negotiation involved). One significant reason for the delay in announcing the 2013 increases that is not mentioned is that DHB are looking at bringing catch-up maintenance (stuff that should have been done on an ongoing basis over the last 10 years and has not been done) to outer harbour walls and other, now dilapidated, port infrastructure costs onto next year's tariff. So if the current execs at DHB are still in place come July 2013, the tariff increase is highly likely to be significantly larger than it has been in recent years and that is a worry for the ferry operators.

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