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Contact Maritime New Zealand

Use this page to find phone, fax or email contact information for Maritime New Zealand. It includes 24-hour emergency numbers to report a maritime accident, emergency or make a MAYDAY call.

General enquiries

Accidents, emergencies and mayday calls

Free 406 beacon registration

Media enquiries

Seafarer licensing

Maritime New Zealand offices and service centres

Customer feedback

Service charter

General enquiries

If you have a general enquiry, please contact our Wellington office:
0508 22 55 22 - toll-free within New Zealand
+64 4 473 0111 - call from outside of New Zealand

Fax: +64 4 494 1263
Email: enquiries@maritimenz.govt.nz

Physical address
Level 10, Optimation House
1 Grey Street
Wellington
New Zealand

Postal address
PO Box 27-006
Wellington 6141

Accidents, emergencies and mayday calls

24-hour emergency numbers

New Zealand (toll free): 0508 472 269  (0508 4 RCCNZ)

Call from outside of New Zealand: +64 4 577 8030

At sea, call the Maritime Operations Centre on VHF radio channel 16. They will pass your details onto RCCNZ.

How to make an emergency call or MAYDAY

USE ONLY IF IN GRAVE OR IMMINENT DANGER

1. VHF Ch 16 or SSB 2182, 4125, 6215, 8291
2. MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
3. THIS IS  NAME OF VESSELL AND CALL SIGN  3 TIMES
4. MAYDAY  NAME OF VESSELL AND CALL SIGN
5. Vessel's position in degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude or bearing and distance from a well known geographical feature.
6. Nature of distress and kind of assistance required.
7. Any other information that may assist rescuers - number of persons on board, emergency details, description of vessel, liferaft, EPIRB, cellphone number.
8. Allow a short period for shore station to reply.
   
   If there is no response and you have an EPIRB, activate it. Repeat the distress call working through all the distress frequencies. If contact is made with a shore station, inform the station that you have activated your EPIRB and do NOT turn it off until advised by the rescue authority.
   
   You can use any number of means to communicate distress simultaneously.
   
   Distress alert by cellphone call: 111

See also:
How to make an emergency call or MAYDAY sticker [PDF: 104Kb, 1 page]

Reporting an accident, incident or injury

• Report a commercial accident, incident or injury
• Report a recreational boating accident

Free 406 beacon registration

0800 406 111 or 0508 406 111 - toll-free within New Zealand

Media enquiries

If you have a media enquiry, please contact our Media line:
+64 4 499 7318

Seafarer licensing

Contact the licensing team by emailing qualifications@maritimenz.govt.nz or
phone +64 4 473 0111 between 0800 and 1300 hours, New Zealand Standard Time (NZST).

 

Maritime New Zealand offices and service centres

Get office and service centre contact details and locations

Customer feedback

Your feedback on any aspects of our work including this website is welcome. Please use our feedback form to send us your comments.

If you are concerned about our standards of service, please refer to our service charter which includes a specific complaints procedure.

Customer feedback form

Service charter

Our standard of service is set out in our service charter.

Maritime New Zealand's service charter