Updates on Vessels & Services to New Zealand

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk are starting a new transtasman service with Trieste Trader 1762 teu IMO 9813814. She is sailing from Tanjung Pelepas to Tauranga before commencing her transtasman schedule. She will call Nelson - Timaru - Lyttleton - Sydney.

[Stephen Chester]

Atlantic Dawn IMO 9671450 is due Lyttelton 1st March from Sydney. She will exchange containersat Cashin Quay West before sailing for San Francisco. She is due back for voyage 2 on 20th March.

Atlantic Dawn voyage 2 will also call Auckland 27 March before heading to San Francisco.

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk Inverness IMO 9348156 is doing a one off voyage Shanghai to Timaru where she is due 25 March. She will then presumably spend a month at anchor as she is due to load in Sydney 29 April to slot in on the ECNA schedule.

[Aaron Fox]

Maersk are replacing the Synergy Keelung with the Maersk Rubicon (IMO: 9632480) on the PANZ Service. Maersk Rubicon is phasing into the PANZ service on the 29 March 2023 at Oakland.

https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2023/03/09/panz-vessel-phase-out-phase-in

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk are starting a new transtasman service with Trieste Trader 1762 teu IMO 9813814. She is sailing from Tanjung Pelepas to Tauranga before commencing her transtasman schedule. She will call Nelson - Timaru - Lyttleton - Sydney.

This new schedule will now swap Melbourne instead of Sydney and add Auckland every second voyage.

[Stephen Chester]

An old friend is returning to NZ shores. Nicolai Maersk IMO 9192454 is to join Trieste Trader on a new Trans Tasman service. She will do a southbound sailing from Singapore and Tanjung Pelepas to Sydney, She will then slot into the Melbourne - Auckland - Nelson - Timaru - Lyttelton - Melbourne schedule. The call into Auckland will made on every second voyage.

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk contingency changes:

https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2023/03/10/new-zealand-network-contingency-update

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk's new Trans Tasman schedule is called Polaris. A third vessel B Trader IMO 9813802 will join the service in May, With the launch of this service Maersk are phasing out the Coastal Connect schedule serviced by Maersk Nadi and Maersk Nansha.

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk Inverness IMO 9348156 is doing a one off voyage Shanghai to Timaru where she is due 25 March. She will then presumably spend a month at anchor as she is due to load in Sydney 29 April to slot in on the ECNA schedule.

Rather than being at anchor she will do a coastal voyage Timaru - Tauranga - Nelson - Port Chalmers, before heading to Melbourne to load for ECNA. She will then return to Port Chalmers and Tauranga before heading to Panama.

[flyer682]

Maersk's new Trans Tasman schedule is called Polaris. A third vessel B Trader IMO 9813802 will join the service in May, With the launch of this service Maersk are phasing out the Coastal Connect schedule serviced by Maersk Nadi and Maersk Nansha.

Does this mean that Maersk Nadi and  Maersk Nansha will no longer be NZ crewed?

[Stephen Chester]

Maersk Nadi is finishing in Lyttelton, and Maersk Nansha in Tauranga. I presume these ports are where the new crews will take over.

[flyer682]

Thank you for that. Such a shame, think it was originally intended to be two years.