Carpentars Amur River broke down off Papua New Guinea and has been replaced on the Asian service by Pac Antilla? a sister to Pac Aquila. Meanwhile Amur River has been repaired and is now chartered to ANL for their own Papua New Guinea service.
Maersk will replace the current the 4 NZ1 Asia ships of 4,200 TEU by 9 smaller vessels, operating separate North Island and South Island loops. They say these replacements will be cheaper to operate while still providing an increase in capacity. No vessel names yet.
This revised service will see one ship dropped from the Southern Star transtasman service between Australia and NZ, as once the new NZ1 is in place they will only be going as far south as Nelson. There will no longer be any direct Australian service by Maersk from Lyttelton (who still will have the competing ANL/MSC operation) or Port Chalmers.