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BusinessAugust 5

Newcomer unloads three containers

It must go on record as being the smallest number of containers handled at Port Chalmers.Only three containers were unloaded from BBC Volga during the vessel's brief visit to the Beach St berth last Saturday.This newcomer is on a voyage from Matarani, Peru, to Port Kembla.
BusinessJuly 29

Visit after lengthy absence

Recently, after an absence of more than eight years, the container ship Aquitania made its fourth visit since being added to Maersk's Tanjung Pelepas run.
BusinessJuly 22

China group's brand-new 'Maple Amethyst' here to unload phosphate.

In port last week, to discharge phosphate at Dunedin and then Ravensbourne, was brand-new Maple Amethyst.
BusinessJuly 15

P&O cruise ships mark 175 years

Despite being held on a wet English summer day, an event at Southampton earlier this month has been described as grand and memorable.
BusinessJuly 8

Sometime visitors go to the wreckers

Having mentioned last week that the container ship Zrin, here on April 5, 2008, is fulfilling a new role as the livestock carrier Nada, its only sister ship to call here arrived at Alang, India, on May 10, and was beached for demolition 11 days later.
BusinessJune 10

Vessels built in Chinese shipyards increasingly coming for visits

They just seem to keep on coming, vessels built in Chinese shipyards in recent years. Latest to arrive for the first time last week, to load logs at Beach St, was Vega Mars. Sister ship Vega Venus berthed at Dunedin a year ago next Saturday to load scrap metal for Indonesia.
Vessels built in Chinese shipyards increasingly coming for visits
Vessels built in Chinese shipyards increasingly coming for visits
BusinessApril 29

On the waterfront: Phosphate carrier will set upper harbour record

Another interesting assortment of newcomers started last week with the arrival of the Italian-built container ship MSC Rafaela. But this week the focus is on four vessels built in China.
BusinessApril 22

On the waterfront: Ship grounds off Moeraki on Anzac Day, 1952

It was a scene never to be repeated at the George St wharf, Port Chalmers, 60 ago this Wednesday (Anzac Day, 1952).
BusinessApril 15

On the Waterfront: Ship retracing course of 'Titanic' seen in Otago

The centenary of the loss of the White Star liner Titanic has been commemorated over the last few days and the 24-year-old, 43,537gt cruise ship Balmoral, here on February 19, 2011, has retraced the course of that tragic maiden voyage of which much has been written and portrayed ever since.
On the Waterfront: Ship retracing course of 'Titanic' seen in Otago
On the Waterfront: Ship retracing course of 'Titanic' seen in Otago
BusinessApril 8

Local link for fire-hit cruise ship

Azamara Quest is the second cruise ship to be disabled by an engine room fire in recent weeks. Until taken in tow, Costa Allegra, on a voyage from Madagascar to the Seychelles, drifted with no power at all for three days in an incident at the end of February.
BusinessApril 1

'Volendam' to bid port farewell for time being

The very successful, bumper cruise ship season, is coming to a close. Pacific Pearl was in yesterday, Volendam is due tomorrow, and next weekend Regatta and Sun Princess are due back again. Then on April 19, the ship that started the season off on October 13, Sea Princess, will bring it to an end.
'Volendam' to bid port farewell for time being
'Volendam' to bid port farewell for time being
BusinessMarch 25

On the waterfront: More visiting vessels from Chinese shipyards

The visitors to this harbour that are products of China's expanding shipbuilding industry have increased steadily over the past few years.
BusinessMarch 18

On the Waterfront: Colourful past cannot save 'Pacific Princess', aka 'Love Boat'

To date, the suffix Princess has been linked to the names of 13 cruise ships that have made 204 visits to Port Chalmers under the P&O or Princess Cruises banners.
BusinessFebruary 26

On the waterfront: Cunard queens always interest

Cruise ships come and go and, in many cases, because of their frequency each year, they do not always attract widespread interest from the general public. But if they are a queen from the Cunard fleet, they always become a major attraction.
BusinessFebruary 19

On the waterfront: Two popular designs frequent visitors to Otago

Two of the most popular designs now familiar to this harbour are the 2824 TEU container ships built at the Hyundai Mipo yard at Ulsan, and a series of bulk/lumber carriers from Japan's Imabari Shipbuilding group.
BusinessFebruary 19

On the waterfront: Echoes of past in visit of 'Albatros'

Two cruise ships due later this week are Albatros, on its first visit under this name, and Regatta, on its maiden call. They are two of the vessels calling here in what has turned out to be a record cruise-ship season.
NewsFebruary 12

Sister ships visit in various guises

Regatta, here for the first time last Saturday, is one of a class of eight sister ships, an ambitious project that ran into financial difficulties before they were all completed and bankrupted their owners, Renaissance Cruises Inc.
BusinessJanuary 3

On the Waterfront: Plenty of first-time vessel visits to Otago Harbour in 2011

Last year proved to be a very interesting one with such a large number of vessels calling here for the first time. And the last of these to enter the harbour was the attractive Spirit of Adventure, which was berthed at Port Chalmers last Thursday and Friday.
BusinessDecember 25

On the Waterfront: Variety among cruise visitors

The visit last Friday by the 77,441gt Sun Princess that marked 50 years of calls to this harbour by international cruise ships, could not have happened at a more appropriate time in the cruise ship calendar.
BusinessDecember 18

On the waterfront: Interest in chance meeting

Polarcus Alima and Jaya Amazon provided something totally different to the waterfront scene at Port Chalmers when they met there by chance, last Wednesday morning.
BusinessDecember 11

On the Waterfront: Visitors from Papenburg

The cruise ships Celebrity Century, here for the first time last Tuesday, and Radiance of the Seas, on its third visit on Friday, have more than one thing in common. They are from two arms of the Royal Caribbean group and both were built in the covered, state-of-the-art shipbuilding facility of Jos L. Meyer Werft, at Papenburg, on the River Eems, 40km inland from the North Sea.
BusinessDecember 4

On the Waterfront: Red-hulled bulk carriers on maiden voyages

It was interesting to see the Lauritzen group represented here by a bulk carrier and a tanker within a few days of each other late last month. Both red-hulled vessels were on their maiden visits.
BusinessNovember 27

On the waterfront: Inclement weather disrupts early cruise ship schedules

Now a familiar visitor to the port, Holland-America's Volendam makes its 27th visit today. And in two days' time sister ship Zaandam will be making its first appearance here.
BusinessNovember 20

On the waterfront: Cruise ship bonanza just keeps growing

Under the heading "Cruise ship bonanza for businesses", the illustration in last Tuesday's Otago Daily Times Special Anniversary Edition shows the famous Queen Elizabeth 2 passing Pulling Point on its first visit on February 4, 1992.