New shipping capacity for lower South Island

Lower South Island exporters and importers have a new weekly shipping option to and from
Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
From Wednesday (4 February), Port Otago welcomes MSC’s Wallaby service into Port
Chalmers.
Port Otago GM Customer Craig Usher says the addition of Port Chalmers to MSC’s Asia-
Oceania network, the Wallaby service, represents new export and import capacity for
Otago/Southland. “This is good news for our region. It provides another service option for our
customers, particularly those with products going into and coming from North Asia.”
MSC is the world’s largest shipping line. For the past two years, it has serviced Port Chalmers
via a transship service to Tauranga, utilising the Oceania 2 loop service. Now, Wellington’s
port will act as a hub for MSC, with containers transferring onto MSC’s new Eagle services
to the Americas and Europe.
Wallaby service rotation: Sydney – Melbourne – Auckland – Bluff – Port Chalmers –
Lyttelton – Napier – Wellington – Melbourne – Brisbane – Hong Kong – Yantian – Xiamen –
Shanghai – Ningbo – Sydney.