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At NZ£ 9 10s one way for a family of four and a car up to 4.04 m [12] (equal to NZ$395 in 2016 dollars, [13]) many people thought the service was overpriced for a state-operated service. Nevertheless, it was a cash cow for NZR - in the 1963-64 financial year, it contributed £535,000 of the NZR's £538,500 working profit.
DEV Aratere is a roll-on/roll-off rail and vehicle ferry operated by KiwiRail in New Zealand. Built in 1998 for the then-private company Tranz Rail and lengthened in 2011, she operates four daily crossings on the Interislander service across Cook Strait from Wellington to Picton each day (with six crossings over the December/January period).
MV Kaitaki is a roll-on/roll-off ferry built in 1995. It previously operated under the names, Isle of Innisfree, then Pride of Cherbourg, Stena Challenger and Challenger.As of 2008, MV Kaitaki was the largest ferry operating the Interislander service between the North and South Islands of New Zealand having taken her latest name in 2007.
Santa Regina was the flagship vessel for the Bluebridge ferry service, which runs from Wellington to Picton up to four times a day. Bluebridge competes with the longer running Interislander line, which also provides transport across Cook Strait. In June 2015, Strait Shipping replaced the Santa Regina with the MS Strait Feronia. [1]
On 9 December 2014, an announcement was made that she would again be chartered long-term by Interislander to replace the aging Arahura, which had been in service since 1983 and was to retire in 2015. Before returning to New Zealand, she was refitted to better suit the Wellington to Picton route.
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Inter-island ferry operations began in 1992 as Strait Shipping Limited, [3] as a way for Barker to provide more affordable inter-island ferry services for his trucking group. Ferries between the North and South Islands of New Zealand were then monopolised by the Interisland Line , owned by the then state-owned enterprise New Zealand Rail ...
She arrived from Scotland on 26 July 1962 and entered service on 13 August. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 1965, she was joined by the similar, but slightly larger, Aranui . On 10 April 1968 Aramoana was the largest of the rescue vessels when TEV Wahine , a New Zealand inter-island ferry of the Union Company , foundered after striking Barrett Reef at the ...