Updates on vessel changes and services to New Zealand in 2015

[Stephen Chester]

The Capitaine Wallis IMO 9346562 is to be renamed BC San Francisco at Auckland and join Maersks' NZ3 South East Asia service. She will load in Auckland 7 January and Tauranga 9 January before sailing to Singapore.

[Stephen Chester]

The replacement for Capitaine Wallis, is Kota Ratna IMO 9167447. She is due in Auckland 18 January and will be renamed Capitaine Wallis.

[Stephen Chester]

Two additions to Maersks' NZ3 service in 2015 are JPO Vela IMO 9406180 and Mediterranean Sea IMO 9348194.

[Stephen Chester]

The two vessels announced to join "ANL Benalla" on the TransTas service are:

Hansa Augustenburg IMO 9155391 to be renamed "ANL Echuca" and

Noble Acrux IMO 9433066 to be renamed "ANL Euroa"

[Stephen Chester]

The "small" container vessel "Mekong River" IMO 9378931 has been added to the MSC Capricorn Service. She has a nominal TEU capacity of 1118.

[Stephen Chester]

The previously mentioned "Mediterranean Sea" IMO 9348194 has been replaced by "Santa Regina" IMO 9293167 on Maersk's NZ3 service.

[Stephen Chester]

Mediterranean Shipping Company's new KIWI service is set to commence towards the end of February. Ports of call will be Melbourne

[Brent]

My suspicion is the Mekong River reported earlier is positioning via Capricorn for this revised service.

[Stephen Chester]

The previously mentioned sailing of the Mekong River is now being taken by the "Hansa Century" IMO 9124512. which is transferring from the old TransTas service. The Mekong River is no longer on any schedule.

[Stephen Chester]

Another addition to Maersks' NZ3 service is "Buxhai" IMO 9320398.

[Robbie]

The Buxhai is currently on her way to China to get a 1200teu section added to her. If this is the case with a capacity of just over 6000teu's she'll be the biggest containrr vessel to call at New Zealand.

[Stephen Chester]

According to the Maersk schedule she is due to load in Tanjung Pelepas on 24 January and is due Auckland 11 February. She was built in 2005, so seems strange to do that work on a vessel of that age, and I can't see it happening that shorter time.

[Tony des Landes]

According to the Maersk schedule she is due to load in Tanjung Pelepas on 24 January and is due Auckland 11 February. She was built in 2005, so seems strange to do that work on a vessel of that age, and I can't see it happening that shorter time.

According to Lloyds List Intelligence, she should be in Fremantle at the moment and then her next port is shown as Auckland

[Stephen Chester]

The "Passat Spring" IMO 9316359 has been added to the MSC Capricorn Service.

[jan_t]

Re Buxhai @ Stephen.

The vessel will actually not be lengthened with a single section, but widened to improve max intake, stability intake, per-teu consumption, etc.

See more here:

http://www.reederei-nsb.de/en/knowledge/technical-nautical-services/widening-of-panmax-ships/

Apptly, the TC rate Delta between panamaxes and over-panamaxed does (at least in NSBs view) justifiy the investment.

However - given the aformentioned scheudle, it looks like she will perform the NZ roundtrip *before* being converted...