Updates on vessels and services to New Zealand in 2013

[Stephen Chester]

"MSC Kerry" IMO 9062960 will leave the Falcon service and swap with MSC England on the Capricorn service.

[Stephen Chester]

CMA CGM are now replacing "Hansa Ludwigsburg" and not "Westerems" with "Noble Regor" on the ANZEX service.

They are replacing "Rio Thelon" with "Lutetia" IMO 9246695 on the Panama Direct service.

[Stephen Chester]

Sofrana Shipping are replacing "MCP Salzburg" with "MCP Villach" on the NZ to Papua New Guinea/Solomon Islands run. The former is heading to dry dock after discharge in Lihir.

[Stephen Chester]

Armacup Shipping are replacing "NOCC Pamplona" IMO 9177038 with "Morning Miracle" IMO 9289908.

[Aaron Fox]

MOL are replacing the MOL Spring with the MOL Delight on the Japan/China to Australia/NZ run. She is due to arrive into NZ on the 28 June 2013

[Stephen Chester]

Not a NZ service sorry ....but, Matson South Pacific's new vessel "Imua" is ex "MCP Bilbao" IMO 9371907. She is running from Brisbane to Honiara, Noro and Nauru.

[Stephen Chester]

Pacific Direct Line are reorganising their Pacific Island services.
"Southern Lily 2" IMO 9278909 is to be returned to her owners and replaced by "Southern Lily 3" IMO 9167459 ex Kota Rukun. Southern Fleur IMO 9404613 is transferring form the Noumea run to join the new vessel on a dedicated - Auckland, Suva, Lautoka, Apia, Pago Pago and Nuku

[LPC Eye]

Anybody know what has happened to vessel tracking on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. This website www.marinetraffic.com is a great site for monitoring traffic for free. It seems to have lost satelite in this area.

[Robbie]

Anybody know what has happened to vessel tracking on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. This website www.marinetraffic.com is a great site for monitoring traffic for free. It seems to have lost satelite in this area.

AIS works off a VHF signal which has a range of approx 40nm. There are no satelites required, you are thinking of gps. I have never sailed the NZ coast but my guess would be there are no ships in range/ in the area. If there is meant to be something in Gisborne I would guess the ship must have their AIS transmitter off.

Regards Robbie

[LPC Eye]

Thanks Robbie, Im not sure how its all run and I do know of many vessels in this area. I have been monitoring this site for many months and up until a week or so ago, they seem to disappear between Auckland and Tauranga through to Napier and beyond until Wellington where all vessels are picked up again.

[Brent]

MOL Spring will bd replaced by MOL Delight at Shanghai in early June

[Simon Brown]

Their is a land based AIS receiver in the Gisborne area but it's been offline for some days now what I can see and in turn not feeding the Marinetraffic servers in Greece. Their will be vessels in the Gisborne area or passing coastwise some 20-30 miles offshore but the land based station needs to be online to pick them up. It's pretty uncommon for international trading vessels these days to turn off their AIS transmitters so that's not the reason behind you seeing nothing in this area of late. Of course VHF transmissions are mainly line-of sight so at sea level not a great distance can be covered..unless the receiver station is as high as possible. Our old receiver position was at sea level and the range was 10-15 miles on average..now it's around 3,000 feet and it can go out to 350 nautical miles or usually averages 125-150 miles most days. Even a local radio tech guy was impressed by such a distance. In the right atmospheric conditions we have seen VHF AIS signals bounce across the Southern Alps (that's up over 12,000 foot mountains) from fishing vessels on the west coast to our receiver on the East Coast. I know signals in the mid-Tasman can also be received when the conditions are right. I'm sure the operators of the Gisborne receiver will be back at some stage. Our is on 24/7 and over the past 18 months has been online 99.9% of the time. Our Timaru receiver has picked up some vessels on the Wairarapa coast.

Simon
AIS Timaru

[Stephen Chester]

The vessel to replace the "Southern Fleur" on Pacific Direct Lines Noumea service is " Kota Ratu" IMO 9167435. She was last in the fleet as "Southern Lily" and will be renamed "Southern Moana" for her new role.

[Stephen Chester]

Pacific Direct Lines vessel "Southern Tiare" ex Manini IMO 8719176 loads for Norfolk Island in Auckland on 1 June.
It appears she will also be trading to the Chatham Islands, for Chatham Island Shipping Co, in between her voyages to Norfolk Island.
The schedule appears to be: Auckland - Norfolk Is - Napier - Chathams - Timaru - Napier - Auckland.
I can't fathom out the cargo for the Timaru to Napier leg. Any ideas?

[Brent]

Stephen, understand the Timaru connection is twofold, discharging cargo from the Chathams as well as at Napier, and also to feeder PDL Pacific Island cargo to Auckland and Napier as well. Baldur arrived back in Napier yesterday afternoon and laying over until 25th, not sure whereafter then.