{"id":11232,"date":"2021-11-06T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T02:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2021-11-06T21:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T02:06:02","slug":"kiwirail-leases-additional-ferry-to-boost-interislander-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11232","title":{"rendered":"KiwiRail Leases Additional Ferry to Boost Interislander Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KiwiRail has leased an additional freight ferry to provide capacity and resilience on Cook Strait, KiwiRail Group Chief Executive Greg Miller announced today. The<em>\u00a0Valentine<\/em>\u00a0is completing technical due diligence in England now, ahead of sailing to New Zealand. It is due to arrive in mid-December and Interislander crews will familiarize themselves with the ship before\u00a0<em>Valentine<\/em>\u00a0begins working the Cook Strait, likely later in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Miller said the Interislander fleet is aging and more prone to breakdown.\u00a0\u201cOld ships tend to have mechanical problems and this has been highlighted with the current mechanical issues on\u00a0<em>Aratere<\/em>. While she has now resumed service, we know that disruption is bad for us and our customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Valentine<\/em>\u00a0is being leased for an initial 12 months.\u00a0<em>\u00a0Valentine\u00a0<\/em>has been working in the English Channel and is well-suited to KiwiRail operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Miller says the move\u00a0shows KiwiRail\u2019s determination to support the movement of essential supplies in New Zealand\u00a0through increased capacity, collaboration, and improving scheduling and resource planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KiwiRail has leased an additional freight ferry to provide capacity and resilience on Cook Strait, KiwiRail Group Chief Executive Greg Miller announced today. The\u00a0Valentine\u00a0is completing technical due diligence in England now, ahead of sailing to New Zealand. It is due to arrive in mid-December and Interislander crews will familiarize themselves with the ship before\u00a0Valentine\u00a0begins working the Cook Strait, likely later in December.<\/p>\n<p>Click the image above to read the full story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7890,5989,5637,4552,13618,8222,5992,5670,7929,2203,4957,13021,5676,8004,13579,13156,10355,10169,10458,6711,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[7198,3974,9306,14879,7371,4581,5205,12097,988,1327,2967,1216,4512,8680,3416,7192,3796,4127,5049,4824,5048,507,2968,1907,4224,3170,5888,745,11632,3242,11631,7975,5568,14876,718,412,5298,3241,14878,9430,11715,10496,6835,14565,9006,1055,3774,1556,10325,2337,2941,1691,1658,1916,14877,8658,3240],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-news","category-boating-news","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-great-britain","category-international-news","category-leasing-news","category-marine-ocean-news","category-maritime","category-diversity","category-news","category-railroad","category-shipping-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-7198","tag-additional","tag-aging","tag-aratere","tag-arrive","tag-bad","tag-boost","tag-breakdown","tag-business","tag-capacity","tag-channel","tag-chief","tag-communications","tag-completing","tag-cook","tag-crews","tag-customers","tag-december","tag-diligence","tag-disruption","tag-due","tag-england","tag-english","tag-executive","tag-ferry","tag-freight","tag-greg","tag-group","tag-interislander","tag-issues","tag-kiwirail","tag-leases","tag-mechanical","tag-miller","tag-new","tag-news","tag-planning","tag-problems","tag-prone","tag-provide","tag-resilience","tag-resource","tag-resume","tag-sailing","tag-scheduling","tag-service","tag-ship","tag-shipping","tag-strait","tag-technical","tag-the","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-valentine","tag-working","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11234,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions\/11234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}