The New Zealand shipping firm Strait Shipping Limited operates between the North Island (Wellington: passengers and freight, Napier: freight) and the South Island (Picton: passengers and freight; and Nelson: freight only).
The firm started operations in 1992 to compete with the Interisland Line, owned by the then state-owned enterprise New Zealand Rail Limited.
Strait Shipping currently operates the passenger roll on / roll off ferry MS Santa Regina under the Bluebridge brand, with MS Monte Stello entering service in late 2006. Now a new ferry MV Straitsman
Read more about Strait Shipping: Former Fleet, External Links
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“We approached the Indian Island through the narrow strait called “Cook.” He said, “I ‘xpect we take in some water there, river so high,—never see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Don’t paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right along.” It was a very short rapid. When we were in the midst of it he shouted “paddle,” and we shot through without taking in a drop.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)