Updates on vessels and services to New Zealand in 2022

[Stephen Chester]

GSL Kithira IMO 9407885 is replacing Maersk Garonne on the North Asia (JKN) service. She is a larger vessel being 52726 grt and 5303 teu capacity.  The latter vessel is heading for the repair yard for survey.

[Stephen Chester]

Cosco Felixstowe IMO 9246401 is replacing Jogela on the (JKN) North Asia schedule. The latter vessel is replacing her on the A3S Australia to China service.

[Stephen Chester]

There are vessel changes on Zim Lines NZ2A Australia to NZ service.
Contship Dax and Contship Rex are leaving the schedule, being replaced by H Cygnus IMO 9946233 and H Mercury IMO 9946245. Big Lilly will also remain on the schedule.

They also show a one off feeder vessel Anna Gabriele IMO 9045699 calling Marsden Point 31/12 and Auckland 1/1.
This vessel is at present trading as LDR Bedel and is in Novorossiysk Russia.

[Stephen Chester]

Move Logistics new vessel "Atlas Wind" arrived in ballast at Wellington from Mebourne. She then sailed to Brisbane, and is loading at Port Alma for Whangarei. Could be a cargo of containers as Port Alma is where the bulker Shanghai Spirit also loaded containers for discharge in Whangarei.

[tropic maritime images]

G'Day Stephen,

Port Alma is known for Ammonium Nitrate (explosives) and tallow exports and a small amount of petroleum imports. It's a very small, shallow port in the middle of nowhere near Rockhampton. What's in the containers ??

I posted an aerial shot a few years ago, luckily flying high enough to escape the sandflies that infest the place . . .

Cheers,
tropic

[Stephen Chester]

Hi, I don't know what the cargo was, but the Shanghai Spirit berthed at 5.30am and sailed at midday. So not many containers in that time frame. She sailed to Bundaberg to load a cargo of sugar for South Korea.

[tropic maritime images]

1000kg bags of Ammonium Nitrate would be my guess . . .

tropic

[Stephen Chester]

MSC Tania IMO 9316373 and MSC Lidia IMO 9383223 are transferring from the Panda service to the New Kiwi Express service.

[Tony des Landes]

A couple of changes are to take place on the South East Asia Service operated by Hamburg-Sud

SFL Maui 307S will phase out in Singapore, replaced by Monte Tamaro (IMO 9357949) 307S.
Rio de La Plata 310S will also phase out in Singapore, replaced by SFL Hawaii (IMO: 9679555) 310S.