Swire

That was phenomenal.

It was also amazing when I worked at Whitman Family Development watching Brickell City Center and being a part of that and helping with the leasing and being a part of the early onset and working alongside companies like Swire and Simon Properties and really learning about that.

Most recently with the relaunch of Brightline after the pandemic, building out their corporate program and really giving corporations an opportunity to take advantage of public transportation and open up their employment pool rather than it just be in West Palm or Broward or Miami, you know, opening up that pool of you know, very well qualified candidates, bringing better ideas to their companies and really expanding their reach throughout South Florida.

And then one of my favorite things that I did at, well, two things, my campaign that I did with BMW, with Business Traveler, at uh ink stagwell as well as my campaign that i worked with uh with volkswagen

And also Jeremy Sutton.

Jeremy, you're the Chief Executive at Swire Shipping and thank you very much for both of you for joining me this morning and well this afternoon for you, Jeremy.

Thanks, Julia.

Nice to be here.

Yes, please rewind because I'm aware that this is

just one of the issues that you're tackling.

One of the things that makes the work of the All Aboard Alliance, I think, so powerful is that we have indeed leading companies like Swire.

work come together and really in an industry where there's a lot being defined by complying with minimum standards, what we are setting out to do with the Alliance is very much to show that there is an alternative that we can do better.

High Commission in Suva and other sort of relationships with MFAT and other government agencies and again this is not at all a critique of the New Zealand Pacific Business Council because they do a really really good job it was great to talk to Giles and I think that there's definitely scope to you know continue growing that council and that organisation for the future and we'll look forward to seeing some of that at the AGM I suppose in a couple of weeks.

As a segue out of our Talanoa with Giles on the shipping side, I think you uncovered that Swire have also introduced some surcharges to shipping.

Yeah, exactly.

So, I mean, this sort of came up in our trawl of the regular Pacific briefings that we look through to inform the show.

So, yeah, we are starting to see some of the shippers putting some of those surcharges on.

Whether that reflects some of the, you know, looming impacts from Panama, like Giles mentioned, I'm not sure.

But certainly, you know, some of those surcharges are coming on and we saw a reference to Swire Shipping being one of the ones that's announced a new change to it.

And yeah, of course, those fuel price pressures are still impacting the region and it's playing out in the freight and logistics sector very, very directly.