NEPTUNE PACIFIC Direct Line will postpone a temporary vessel substitution in the AUSPAC service, due to delays with a drydocking in China.
The carrier was due to assign the newly-overhauled Capitaine Kupe to AUSPAC to free NPDL Tahiti for its own drydocking but work on the former has not yet been completed.
In a note to customers NPDL said as per its 31 December advisory Capitaine Kupe was to join AUSPAC in Suva on 21 January. With the delay mentioned above, it will now join the service in Suva on 18 February. The NPDL Tahiti 2502S will proceed as normal to Port Vila and the Australian coast. “Please ensure that all documentation reflects the NPDL Tahiti 2502,” the carrier said.
NPDL Tahiti will perform Voy 2504 up to Suva, where it will discharge all cargo, and then proceed to China for dry dock. Capitaine Kupe Voy 2504S will join the AUSPAC service in Suva and will pick up all the transhipments (from NPDL Tahiti) as well as any Fiji exports to Vanuatu and Australia.
NPDL has also advised that the vessel Skyline, which has been taken on charter for the MICROPAC service, we was renamed Micronesian Ocean by vessel owners Nauru Shipping Line in Kiritimati while at anchorage on 30 December 2024, on its current voyage 046S instead of its next voyage in Suva.
Micronesian Ocean is scheduled to call Lautoka 20 January, Suva 22 January, Tarawa 30 January and Funafuti 6 February.
