![]() Aranui 5, 2015
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Name | Aranui 5 |
Owner | Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM) |
Port of registry | Papeete, French Polynesia ( France) |
Builder | Huanghai Shipbuilding, Shandong, China [2] |
In service | 12 December 2015 |
Homeport | Papeete, French Polynesia |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger-cargo ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 126 m (413 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 24 m (78 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) [2] |
Decks | 10 |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) [2] |
Capacity | 256 |
Crew | 64 [2] |
M/V Aranui 5 is a dual passenger/cargo vessel that entered service on 12 December 2015 between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. [3] With a homeport of Papeete, French Polynesia, the Aranui 5 replaced the Aranui 3 which entered service in 2003. [4]
No Aranui 4 ever went into service, because the number four is regarded as unlucky in China, [5] from which Wing Wong, founder of Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM), the family business that operates the Aranui voyages, emigrated to Tahiti in the 1930s. [4] [6]
Aranui 5, like its predecessor, is registered as a passenger ship under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), for international operation. [4]
As well as carrying cargo to and from the six ports in the Marquesas Islands, Aranui 5 operates a passenger service and tourist cruise as part of its monthly 12-day itinerary; the ship also stops at the Rangiroa and Tuamotu atolls before returning to Tahiti. [7]
Additional Aranui 5 trips operate to other islands in French Polynesia and beyond, including Rarotonga and the Cook Islands and once a year to Pitcairn Island. [7]
![]() Aranui 5, 2015
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History | |
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Name | Aranui 5 |
Owner | Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM) |
Port of registry | Papeete, French Polynesia ( France) |
Builder | Huanghai Shipbuilding, Shandong, China [2] |
In service | 12 December 2015 |
Homeport | Papeete, French Polynesia |
Identification |
|
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger-cargo ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 126 m (413 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 24 m (78 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) [2] |
Decks | 10 |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) [2] |
Capacity | 256 |
Crew | 64 [2] |
M/V Aranui 5 is a dual passenger/cargo vessel that entered service on 12 December 2015 between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. [3] With a homeport of Papeete, French Polynesia, the Aranui 5 replaced the Aranui 3 which entered service in 2003. [4]
No Aranui 4 ever went into service, because the number four is regarded as unlucky in China, [5] from which Wing Wong, founder of Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM), the family business that operates the Aranui voyages, emigrated to Tahiti in the 1930s. [4] [6]
Aranui 5, like its predecessor, is registered as a passenger ship under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), for international operation. [4]
As well as carrying cargo to and from the six ports in the Marquesas Islands, Aranui 5 operates a passenger service and tourist cruise as part of its monthly 12-day itinerary; the ship also stops at the Rangiroa and Tuamotu atolls before returning to Tahiti. [7]
Additional Aranui 5 trips operate to other islands in French Polynesia and beyond, including Rarotonga and the Cook Islands and once a year to Pitcairn Island. [7]