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StraitNZ, formerly Strait Shipping and Bluebridge, is a New Zealand transport firm that operates roll-on/roll-off freight and passenger shipping across the Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island, as well as trucking and logistics services across New Zealand.
New Zealand has a long history of international and coastal shipping. Both Maori and the New Zealand European settlers arrived from overseas, and during the early European settler years, coastal shipping was one of the main methods of transportation, [47] while it was hard to move goods to or from the hinterlands, thus limiting the locations of ...
CentrePort Wellington (CentrePort) provides land and sea infrastructure and manages port facilities in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand. The company is the successor to the Wellington Harbour Board, and was formed as one of the outcomes of the 1989 local government reforms.
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Visited by around 1,600 commercial vessels a year, [13] Auckland is New Zealand's largest commercial port, handling more than NZ$20 billion of goods per year. [14] Ports of Auckland handles the movement of 60% of New Zealand's imports and 40% of its exports (both by value, 2006), [ 15 ] respectively 50% of the North Island's container trade ...
Matoaka (also listed as Mataoka) [1] was a 1092-ton wooden New Brunswick full-rigged ship built in 1853 for Willis, Gunn, & Co. She was sold to Shaw, Savill, & Albion by 1859. [2] Between 1859 and 1869 she made eight voyages to New Zealand. Her fastest run from Bristol to Lyttelton, New Zealand was 82 days in 1862.