A report on the value of placing New Zealand in the middle of passenger and freight routes between Asia, the Pacific and South America out today says the opportunity would be worth at least $1.87 billion within a decade, once Covid is under control.   Economic consultancy NZIER’s Southern Link: the potential to develop a global value chain report, done for the New Zealand China Council,  envisages New Zealand as an e-commerce hub, shipping or airfreighting parcels and other goods from Asia…