Strait Shipping
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| Industry | Passenger transportation Freight transportation |
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| Founded | 1992[1] |
| Headquarters | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Area served | New Zealand |
| Subsidiaries | Bluebridge |
| Website | www.strait.co.nz |
The New Zealand shipping firm Strait Shipping Limited operates between the North Island (Wellington: passengers and freight, Napier: freight) and the South Island (Picton: passengers and freight; and Nelson: freight only).
The firm started operations in 1992 to compete with the Interisland Line, owned by the then state-owned enterprise New Zealand Rail Limited.
Strait Shipping currently[update] operates the passenger roll on / roll off ferry MS Santa Regina under the Bluebridge brand, with MS Monte Stello entering service in late 2006. Now a new ferry MV Straitsman
[edit] Former fleet
- MV Straitsman (freight, 1992 – 2004)
- MV Suilven (freight/passenger, 1995 – 2004)
- MV Kent (freight, 2001 – 2010)
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