Container shipping Wellington to Lyttelton
Inter-island coastal container sailings across Cook Strait — Wellington, Lyttelton and onward to Christchurch and Canterbury.
Wellington to Lyttelton is the natural inter-island container lane for cargo moving between the lower North Island and Christchurch. We book FCL, LCL, reefer and hazardous goods on regular coastal sailings — with road or rail line-haul into Wellington, the Wairarapa, Manawatu, Christchurch and wider Canterbury.
For shippers comparing coastal containers against road/rail-and-ferry combinations, this lane is often the best balance of cost and reliability — especially for FCL volumes and reefer cargo where ferry capacity is tight.
Transit is typically 2–4 days port to port, with a single point of contact handling the full chain.
FCL inter-island
20ft and 40ft containers on regular Wellington → Lyttelton sailings.
LCL part-loads
Shared containers for pallets and smaller shipments across Cook Strait.
Reefer containers
Chilled and frozen cargo with monitored transit.
Hazardous goods
Fully compliant DG container freight with paperwork handled end-to-end.
North & South line-haul
Pickup in the lower North Island, delivery into Canterbury and the South.
Independent routing
Best price across multiple coastal carriers, never tied to one line.
Wellington → Lyttelton quote?
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