Fenwick Shipping Services Ltd of Hong Kong, is a company that operates smaller type bulk carriers.
With the arrival of its Sheng Mu at Dunedin this morning, more than half the fleet will have made their first visits to the upper harbour in the past eight months.
The Fenwick fleet contains only five vessels, built by Chinese shipyards and all registered at Hong Kong. The first of its ships to call, the 11,478gt Tien Hau, built in 1996, berthed at Ravensbourne on September 16, 2008.
But instead of discharging phosphate the vessel loaded phosphate for Western Australia.
And, early last month, one of the younger units of the fleet, the 14,912 gt Kuanyin, built last year, also berthed at Ravensbourne.
Sheng Mu, registered to the ownership of Hilane Ltd, was delivered from the Xingang Shipyard at Tianjin on March 30, 1998.
It is a 10,490gt, 16,860dwt vessel, having an overall length of 143.45m and a service speed of 13.5 knots.
While at Dunedin, the ship will load another consignment from the local Ravensdown works for Western Australia.
Over the last five years, Fenwick vessels have carried eight million tonnes of bulk commodities.
Established as Wheelock Marine Chartering in 1973, the name was changed to its present form in 1985.
Arctic ID, which sailed last week after loading logs, was another maiden caller.
On charter to Hong Kong-based Pacific Basin Shipping, this Panama-flag ship is owned by K/S Danskib 64, one of the single-ship companies operated under the umbrella of Investment Group Danmark A/S.
This company started operations in 1989 and since then has owned or managed ships through its subsidiary ID Shipping A/S.
The fleet lists more than 40 vessels, mainly in the handysize or handymax segments.
A product of the Kanasashi shipyard at Toyosashi, the 17,209gt, 28,251dwt vessel was delivered on June 26, 1996.
However, over the years it has carried names that seem to reflect the extremes between heat and cold.
It started its career under the Liberian flag as Sun Dream.
A change of ownership in 2002 saw it renamed Solar Oceania under the same flag.
Taken over by Pacific Basin in 2006, it traded as the Hong Kong-flagged Lake Joy until late 2007, when it passed to its present owner for service under the Panamanian flag.
Since 1980, the name Pan Ocean Shipping Company has been linked to more than 70 local visits by bulk carriers mostly loading logs or discharging phosphate.
The company traded under that name until September, 2004, when the title was changed to STX Pan Ocean Ltd.
The company owns 64 vessels and has another 300 on charter.
But the fleet is now more diversified and includes car carriers, container ships, lng carriers and tankers like STX Ace 6, seen here on its first visit last week.
Sister ship STX Ace 7 was here in February.
Both are registered at Panama.
A 46,177dwt vessel that has been in service since February, 2007, STX Ace 6 is one of 14 tankers in the STX Pan Ocean fleet.
Ten of these vessels of the same design as the local visitors, are 30,027gt double hull vessels classed as chemical/products carriers.
Built between 2006 and 2008, they all have STX Ace names but the sequence from 1 to 12 is broken with no STX Ace 3 or 4.
All were built at Chinhae by the STX Shipbuilding Company and represent a large series built there since 2002.
