freight shipping founded 1992 headquarters wellington new zealand area served new zealand subsidiaries bluebridge website www.strait.co.nz the santa regina in wellington harbour strait shipping limited is a new zealand firm that operates roll on roll off freight and passenger shipping across the cook strait between wellington in the north island and picton in the south island . passenger services commenced in 2002 and operate under the bluebridge brand . 1 2 strait shipping has in the past also operated freight shipping between wellington and napier also in the north island and nelson and lyttelton in the south island . the firm started operations in 1992 2 to compete with the interisland line owned by the then state owned enterprise new zealand rail limited . contents 1 fleet 1.1 current 1.2 past 2 references 3 external links fleet edit current edit name built entered service tonnage notes straitsman 2005 2010 13 906 gt strait feronia 1997 2015 21 856 gt past edit name built in service tonnage notes straitsman 1972 1992 2004 1 481 gt now sinu i wasa with venu shipping suilven 1974 1995 2004 3 638 gt kent 1977 2001 2010 6 862 gt santa regina 1985 2002 2015 14 588 gt monte stello 1979 2006 2010 11 630 gt references edit http www.bluebridge.co.nz aboutus a b the strait shipping story . strait shipping . retrieved 7 february 2015 . external links edit strait shipping website bluebridge website v t e new zealand inter island and cook strait ferries current cook strait wellington picton ferries dev aratere ms kaiarahi mv kaitaki ms strait feronia mv straitsman former cook strait wellington picton ferries mv arahanga dev arahura gmv aramoana gmv aranui mv aratika hsc condor 10 hsc condor vitesse hsc incat 046 mv monte stello hsc normandie express mv purbeck ms santa regina ms stena alegra former inter island wellington lyttelton ferries tev hinemoa ss maori 1907 tev maori 1952 ss penguin tev rangatira 1930 tev rangatira 1971 ss rotomahana tss wahine 1913 tev wahine 1966 companies strait shipping bluebridge interislander union company retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title strait shipping & oldid 666741519 categories ferry companies of new zealandcook strait ferrypicton new zealand navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 june 2015 at 09 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view