{"id":314922,"date":"2026-03-05T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314922\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:06:08","slug":"new-zealand-prices-of-anything-attached-to-fuel-will-rise-logistics-boss-warns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314922\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand prices of \u2018anything attached to fuel\u2019 will rise, logistics boss warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said he expected to see an impact in fuel pricing soon which would flow through to freight, passenger air travel and anything that has fuel attached to it.<\/p>\n

There had been significant disruptions to air and sea freight, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of sea freight, whilst ports are operating within the area we\u2019re not seeing any vessels transiting through there … so that\u2019s adding time to transit and in terms of cost as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot so much as you would think for New Zealand and Australian exporters because we can route across Asia or for that matter across the USA, it\u2019s for that freight that has to transit via the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation it was \u201cjust a part of everyday life in logistics\u201d as they had to deal with issues such as earthquakes, wars and floods, he said.<\/p>\n

Braid said he had already seen diesel prices lift.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are being told to expect further increases in terms of diesel and that will be impacting our operations around the world, unfortunately we will have to pass that through.\u201d<\/p>\n

The longer term worry would be if this war did not end quickly, he said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he had confidence in New Zealand\u2019s fuel supply situation<\/a>, Braid said the closing of Marsden Point refinery meant New Zealand had to rely on other countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cJet fuel, I think, is 24 days that is being held currently, those are the things we wouldn\u2019t want to see become an issue. So yes it worries us, but we\u2019ve been able to get through all sorts of other catastrophes and events of late, so we\u2019ll have our fingers crossed and just get on and do the job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are being told by those fuel companies that we shouldn\u2019t worry about supplies, so therefore I don\u2019t see a need for panic but I do expect us to see an increase in pricing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any price increases would flow through to freight, passenger air travel and anything that had fuel attached, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said he expected to see an impact in fuel pricing soon which would flow through to freight,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32758,108696,4282,2678,17382,117,111,43,139,69,1118,12937,1436,61,8218,1533,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-314922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-anything","9":"tag-attached","10":"tag-boss","11":"tag-fuel","12":"tag-logistics","13":"tag-new","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-of","19":"tag-prices","20":"tag-rise","21":"tag-to","22":"tag-warns","23":"tag-will","24":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}