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HMNZS Canterbury has full load for voyage
Hon Dr Wayne Mapp
Minister of
Defence
27 February 2011
HMNZS Canterbury has full load for
voyage
The Navy multi-role vessel HMNZS
Canterbury arrived in Wellington early this evening and will
sail at 5am tomorrow (Monday 28 February) for Lyttelton with
a full load of relief cargo for earthquake-stricken
Christchurch.
Her cargo includes:
• a
fuel tanker (belonging to Chevron Mobil)
• four
Telecom vans
• four pallets of Telecom equipment
• 20 DoC 4WD vehicles
• five Housing New Zealand
4WD vehicles
• two pallets of water
• two
containers of bedding (Department of Corrections)
• medical backpacks (Ministry of Education)
• Army equipment including two Unimog trucks, a truck
tractor and 12 Baily bridges
• four refrigerated
containers
• three diesel generators.
She is expected to dock in Lyttelton at 5pm tomorrow.
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