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The initial service was one sailing each way per day, Wellington to Picton in the morning and Picton to Wellington in the afternoon. [4] The new service led to the decline of NZR's Rail Air service, which saw a dramatic drop in airfreight. [11] The service was an immediate success, although it was criticised for high prices.
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).
As of 2022, the two companies still hold a duopoly on interisland ferry services. As well as operating across the Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton, Strait Shipping has in the past also operated freight shipping between Wellington and Napier, also in the North Island, and Nelson and Lyttelton in the South Island.
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.
Ferry Wharf, also known as Ferry Wharf no. 1 to distinguish it from Tug Wharf (or Ferry Wharf no. 2) built beside it some years later, is located immediately west of Waterloo Quay Wharf. J H Williams had begun a ferry service to Days Bay in 1895, and Wellington Harbour Board wanted to take pressure off busy Queens Wharf. [ 35 ]
MV Aratika was a roll-on/roll-off train ferry that operated on the Interislander between Wellington and Picton in New Zealand from 1974 until 1999. According to the Ministry for Culture & Heritage, Aratika is a Māori-language word meaning direct path. [1]
Arahura's last scheduled passenger voyages were on 29 July 2015, operating the 14:45 sailing to Picton and the 18:45 sailing to Wellington. [11] The last freight journey took place over the following night. [citation needed] She had completed more than 52,000 crossings and 13 million km with four million passengers carried.
Strait Feronia is a passenger, freight and vehicle or ROPAX ferry owned and operated by StraitNZ as part of its Bluebridge subsidiary. [3] The ship is a twin of MS Liverpool Seaways . The vessel was initially named Mersey Viking and saw service in the Irish Sea , eventually being renamed Dublin Viking and then Dublin Seaways .