French-owned vessel serviced during brief visit to port of NapierNapier, MSCNewsWire, 17 June 2016 - With only seven hours in the Port of Napier on its coastal voyage between Tauranga and Lyttelton there was still time for marine specialists Napier Engineering & Contracting to deploy a mobile technical services team on board the container ship Lavender.
The vessel is owned by the French CMA CGM, the global shipping owner formed by the merger of the Compagnie Maritime d’Affretement and Compagnie Generale Martime. It is one of Europe’s major family-controlled companies.
The company operates the largest capacity container ship in the world the CMA CGM Marco Polo capable of transporting up to 16,000 TEUs.
The 150 year old Napier Engineering is one of New Zealand’s last medium-to-heavy production and service engineers which is renowned internationally for its Niven range of food processing equipment.
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