Shipping Services

The following section outlines the container services available through Port Taranaki, with links to shipping lines, service profiles, sailing schedules and seafreight rates.

If you have any questions, or require further information please contact:

Paul Campbell
Customer Services & Logistics Co-ordinator
phone: +64-6-759-9770 (direct dial)
email: pcampbell@porttaranaki.co.nz

Maersk Line: http://www.maerskline.com/

Maersk Line is one of the leading liner shipping companies in the world, serving customers all over the globe. With a fleet numbering more than 470 container vessels and more than 1,900,000 containers, Maersk Line ensures a reliable and comprehensive worldwide coverage. Their feeder vessels, trucks and dedicated trains allow them to offer a unique concept of door-to-door services.

• Maersk Line in New Zealand

  The homepage of Maersk Line in New Zealand, providing information on import and export services and procedures, local charges, contact details and online business solutions.

• Service Profile

  Maersk Line has a fixed day, weekly service calling at Port Taranaki that connects this region to the rest of the world via their comprehensive network of hub ports ensuring competitive transit times and frequencies.

  The Southern Star Express Service provides a direct sailing to the Australian ports of Sydney and Melbourne, as well as connections between Port Taranaki and Europe, the Mediterranean, North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America, North and South Asia, the Indian Sub-continent, Middle East, Africa and Australia.

  

• on-line schedules - Check sailing schedules, including specific times and vessels

• rate search - Rates and charges to and from all countries. You will need to be a registered user of Maersk's website to access this feature.

Swire Shipping: http://www.swireshipping.com/

Swire Shipping Limited has been providing niche, regional, multipurpose shipping services since 1883 when our parent, the China Navigation Company established liner services in Australasia. From our traditional core trading area, the Asia - South Pacific region, Swire Shipping offers direct shipping links between over 75 ports in Australia, Pacific Islands, Asia, North America, Europe the Middle East.

Our fleet of multipurpose vessels, operating competitive and reliable sailing schedules, is capable of carrying a wide range of general/unitized cargoes (including heavy and bulky project lifts), bulk parcels as well as containerized cargoes (general and refrigerated).

Our trans Tasman service calls Port Taranaki every 15 days with 2 dedicated multi purpose vessels offering exporters direct access to the Australian eastern seaboard with connections through to Asia and the Pacific Islands.

For more information please visit our website www.swireshipping.com

Service Overview

Schedule - Import

Schedule - Export

Hamburg Süd Line: http://www.hamburgsued.com

What do you expect of an outstanding carrier? Certainly first and foremost: punctuality, reliability, high technical standards, optimal handling of your cargo, comprehensive know-how, modern information systems, first-class service – and not least, efficient cost control, the basis for competitive terms. Hamburg Süd believe it is these factors, above all, which have made them a true quality carrier – and one of the best partners to be found for worldwide ocean transportation.

• Service Profile

  Hamburg Sud offers the most comprehensive express service in the trade between New Zealand and Asia. The New Zealand and Asian (ANZL) Service has fixed day, weekly sailings providing customers with a fast, direct service from New Plymouth to Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai and Hong Kong - and an inbound leg from Brisbane. Port Taranaki is last call before a 10-day sailing to Yokohama. Additional origins and destinations throughout Asia are available through connections to the expanded Hamburg Sud network.

• Service Overview — view transit times, port rotation and service map.
• Sailing Schedule — point to point schedules, including vessels, dates and transit times.