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NEW ZEALAND PACIFIC (1978)
Service dates: 1991-2002
Shipping lines: P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 23.05.1978
- Launched.
- 22.09.1978
- Completed as New Zealand Pacific for The New Zealand Shipping Corporation Ltd.
- 1989
- Sold to Fuday Ltd, Hong Kong (Denholm Ship Management Ltd, managers) and renamed Tui.
- 1989
- Sold to NWS9 Ltd, UK (ACT (Australia) Ltd, managers) and renamed New Zealand Pacific.
- 14.10.1991
- Lease acquired by P&O Containers Ltd as part of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company’s purchase of Cunard-Ellerman container shipping interests.
- 18.12.1996
- Lease terminated. Ownership transferred to P&O Containers Ltd.
- 31.12.1996
- P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd and reduced to P&O associate by establishment of P&O Nedlloyd Container Line Ltd.
- 05.10.1997
- Transferred from Hong Kong to Bermuda flag. Port of registry now Hamilton, Bermuda. Call sign now ZCBM 8.
- 11.11.2002
- Broken up at Jiangyin, China.