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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).
GMV Aramoana was the first ferry to enter service. The Cook Strait Inter-Island Rail and Road Service (as it was known) started on 11 August 1962 with the roll-on roll-off ferry GMV Aramoana. [10] The service dramatically increased efficiency, since freight could stay in the same wagon the whole journey, reducing time and money.
At this period the settlers saw Cook Strait in a broader sense than today's ferry-oriented New Zealanders: for them the strait stretched from Taranaki to Cape Campbell, so these early towns all clustered around "Cook Strait" (or "Cook's Strait", in the pre-Geographic Board usage of the times) as the central feature and central waterway of the ...
MS Kaiarahi is a roll-on/roll-off ferry operated by Interislander on the ... The Kaiarahi suffered a major gearbox failure while on a regular Cook Strait sailing 31 ...
MV Connemara is a RORO passenger and freight ferry currently sailing across the Cook Strait in New Zealand on StraitNZ's Bluebridge service, after being purchased from Stena RoRo. From 2007 to 2010, she was operated by Balearia as Borja , then between 2010 and 2011 as Baltic Amber for AVE Lines and then DFDS Seaways , before subsequently ...
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Its eastern end meets Cook Strait close to the strait's narrowest point. [3] The Channel is 16.8 km (10.4 mi) long, averages 1.1 km (0.68 mi) in width, and is up to 65 m (213 ft) deep, with an average channel depth of 39.2 m (129 ft). [4] Tory Channel forms a substantial part of the ferry route between Wellington and Picton.
Watch a live view of the Rafah crossing as Israel and Hamas agree four-day ceasefire on Friday (24 November). A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has begun at the scheduled time ...