Great Barrier Shipping Co.

(The Beginning of your Barrier Experience)

Cruise to Gt. Barrier Island at a leisurely 10 knots aboard the working ship M.V.Nivanga
(the way it used to be).

On Board Bar and Cafeteria

Twice Weekly Freight, Vehicle and Passenger Service to Aotea (Gt. Barrier Island) SPECIAL DISCOUNTED FARES FOR BACK PACKERS. Sailings Ex Auckland Mondays and Thursdays 10.30am

Auckland Depot
121 Customs Street West
phone: +64 9  307 1405
fax:   +64 9  307 0475

Great Barrier:
phone: +64 9  429 0431

The "Nivanga" doesn't exist anymore. The new Boat ist the "Stella"

Nivanga's history
The Nivanga was originally called Nivanga I and was built in 1961 in Hong Kong's Wang Poh Shipyards as a training ship for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Solomon - Tuvalu) government.

It changed owners to Consort Shipping, Fiji in 1988 or 1989 and since 1994 is owned and operated by Great Barrier Shipping. She is licenced to carry 161 people, has 40.54 m overall length, 353 registered tonnage and 2 Gardiner 8 cyl 8L3B diesel motors (284 kW each ... using about 300 litres of diesel for the Great Barrier trip), attached to a 3UC 3:1 reversing gearbox. She usually has 4 crew.

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