Port of Tauranga news

Four vessels are expected at the cruise ship berths: On Friday two ships will be in port - Columbus from 6.30am to 9.45pm and Sun Princess from 7am to 6pm. Spirit of Adventure is due at 7.30am on Saturday 7th leaving at 5pm and Celebrity Century will arrive on Sunday 8th at 7.30am and leave at 6.15pm.

Swire Shipping's Tasman Challenger and Tasman Trader will call on their Tasman Orient schedules. Both Southern Fleur and Sofrana Tourville will complete cargo and head for Auckland.

At the bulk cargo berths Vijitra Naree will finish her urea discharge leaving for Lyttelton and Jin Wang Ling will arrive from Lyttelton with a load of soybean meal. New Fantasy is expected from Vancouver, Canada with Fertilizer for Ballance Agri-Nutrients and Sheng Mu will bring in Sulphate of Potash from Port Kembla. Three logships will load cargo: Maritime Victory, Tokomaru Bay and TPC Wellington.

Stolt Violet will call at the tanker berth to discharge vegetable oils and load tallow, Golden Wave will offload acids and load tallow and the coastal tanker Torea will again arrive from Marsden Point to discharge more fuel.

Thirteen vessels will be visiting the container terminal: Spirit of Endurance, Bahia Grande, Merkur Sky, Passat Spring, MOL Summer, Algarrobo, Hansa Coburg, Cap Pasado, Natalie Schulte, NYK Lyttelton, JRS Brisbane, Kota Wangi and MSC London.