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News and viewson New Zealandcontainer tradesMARKET ROUNDUPA legend in his own lifetime, NZ’s most famousson, the pioneering first time Mt Everestconqueror Sir Edmund Hillary died at home inNZ in February. Given a State Funeral, Sir ‘Ed’was mourned by the entire nation.Our photograph shows the arrival of the flying boatdelivering Sir Ed home to Mechanics Bay next towhat is now Ports of Auckland, after his successful1953 Mt Everest expedition.14Among recent shipping and relatedappointments Phil Abraham hasbecome Line Manager Trans Tasmanfor Gold Star Line which launched itsfirst NZ service in February when itcommenced weekly Trans Tasmanservices through Auckland. PhilAbraham previously worked as NZManager for Contship/CP Ships, AsiaTrade Director CP Ships in Sydney andmost recently as Wellington Managerfor NZ freight forwarder Mondiale.Jon Ward, formerly of ANZDL, CPShips and most recently Hapag-LloydNZ has been appointed TransportManager at Ports of Auckland. HansCorporaal has left Hamburg Sud toreturn to familiar territory at TasmanOrient Line as Operations and LogisticsGeneral Manager. After emigrating toNZ in the 1980s he first worked forTasman Asia (now TOL) then Maerskfollowed by Hamburg Sud. At POAL,Stefan Reynolds has been appointed tothe newly created position of Co-ordinatorVehicle Booking System (VBS).Jon Ward.
In a cost cutting restructure thatwill reduce its international regionsto 11, Maersk is merging its OceaniaNZ/Australia region into a new AsiaPacific Region. Full details of how thiswill impact on the NZ operation whereMaersk controls some 35-40% of thecontainer trade have yet to be released.Maersk did announce in February thatNZ Managing Director Tony Gibson isleaving the company. The former PONLNZ Manager who has headed up MaerskNZ since the merger, Tony Gibson will bereplaced by a NZ Country Manager yetto be appointed.A newcomer to NZ and to Ports ofAuckland, Gold Star Line introduced anew Trans Tasman service in February.Operating Sydney/Auckland/NewPlymouth/Timaru/Melbourne, the servicedeploys two newbuildings – the NZ Starand Australia Star both 1,100 TEU with230 reefer plugs. Auckland is the firstport of call on the new service whichGold Star is billing as ‘fastest on themarket’ for the three day transit on themain high volume Sydney/Aucklandleg which arrives POAL at the weekendto make cargo available first thingMonday. Hong Kong based Gold StarLine operates two separate services:one linking Australia/North East Asiaand another linking Australia/South EastAsia/Middle East Gulf.delivery system collecting fuel fromMarsden Point and transferring itdirectly to customers’ vessels at POALberths thereby bypassing the WynyardWharf Tank Farm – POAL’s traditionalfuel storage area which is up forredevelopment.Oceanbridge Shipping TradeAssistant Olivia Kinnane has won theCustoms Brokers and Freight ForwardersFederation (CBAFF) Young AchieversAward and become the first woman todo so.Gold Star Line makes its inaugural call to NZand POAL.Recently released Reports by UKbased Drewry Shipping Consultantsinclude Reefer Market Review andForecast, Global Container TerminalOperators 2007, Container Market Reviewand Forecast 2007/2008.In February POAL and SeaBizformed a new JV company calledSeaFuels which will operate a newbuildbunker barge refuelling service atPOAL. When built to start in 2009, theAwanuia will operate a streamlined15
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