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Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island. It is owned and operated by state-owned rail operator KiwiRail .
In November 2013 she was chartered by Interislander in New Zealand to operate on the Wellington–Picton route for six months. The charter was to assist Interislander's two other ships ( MV Kaitaki and DEV Arahura ) with peak summer loadings while its third ship, DEV Aratere , was out of service for repairs after losing a propeller in early ...
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).
Cook Strait (Māori: Te Moana-o-Raukawa, lit. 'The Sea of Raukawa') is a strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The strait connects the Tasman Sea on the northwest with the South Pacific Ocean on the southeast.
Arahura changed liveries three times in her lifetime. Originally, she had a green hull and buff, red, and black on the funnel (a modified 1970s NZR logo). [14] [15]In 1989, the inter-island service was re-branded as a "ferry cruise", and the livery of all the ferries was replaced with a white hull with blue and green stripes.
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.
TEV Wahine was designed and built for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, and was one of many ferries that have linked New Zealand's North and South Islands.The first regular interisland ferry service between Wellington and Picton began in 1875, [8] and the first Wellington – Lyttelton service began in 1895 with the Union Steamship Company vessel SS Penguin. [9]
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] Santa Regina was renamed Nusa Putera and provides a ferry service to the Port of Merak in Indonesia. [2]