Port Otago will once again be included in a domestic coastal shipping service, with news that Pacifica Shipping is to start a weekly container service linking the port, the Otago Daily Times reported.
The service will link Port Otago with Lyttelton, Tauranga and Auckland, with a newly-built 130m long vessel, Spirit of Endurance, transhipping about 1,000 TEUs a week around the coast.
Pacifica last called at the port in about 2005.
Pacifica now offers southern exporters movement of containers around the country, along with road and rail service.
The service will link Port Otago with Lyttelton, Tauranga and Auckland, with a newly-built 130m long vessel, Spirit of Endurance, transhipping about 1,000 TEUs a week around the coast.
Pacifica last called at the port in about 2005.
Pacifica now offers southern exporters movement of containers around the country, along with road and rail service.