COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Latest guidance

COVID-19 Information for NZ workers aboard
international ships[Date: 22 December 2020; PDF: 310kB, 1 page]

COVID-19 Guidance for ships' crew changes in NZ[Date: 27 October ; PDF: 737kB, 18 pages]

COVID-19 Guidance for the Maritime Industry[PDF: 313kB, 14 pages]

COVID-19 Guidance for ships' crew changes in NZ[PDF: 737kB, 18 pages]

COVID-19 Guidance for the Maritime Industry
Simplified Chinese[Date: 4 November 2020; PDF: 313kB, 14 pages]

COVID-19 Guidance for ships' crew changes in NZ
Simplified Chinese[PDF: 737kB, 18 pages]

COVID-19 Guidance for the Maritime Industry
Tagalog[PDF: 313kB, 16 pages]

COVID-19 Guidance for ships' crew changes in NZ
Tagalog[PDF: 737kB, 27 pages]

Latest maritime industry updates

Maritime industry update 062 - 21 January 2021[PDF: 322kB, 10 pages]

Maritime industry update 061 - 15 January 2021[PDF: 241kB, 10 pages]

Maritime industry update 060 - 17 December 2020[PDF: 238kB, 8 pages]

Maritime industry update 059 - 11 December 2020[PDF: 376kB, 7 pages]

Contact us

The best way of contacting us is by email.

We are monitoring our email and will respond to your enquiry as soon as possible.

Please use the following email addresses:
seafarers@maritimenz.govt.nz for all seafarer enquiries
operators@maritimenz.govt.nz for vessel related safety and certification
ship.registration@maritimenz.govt.nz for Part A and Part B registrations
exemptions.officer@maritimenz.govt.nz for all exemptions
enquiries@maritimenz.govt.nz for all other general enquiries

Alternatively you can use our online enquiry form.

If you don't have email

We are still answering the phones but there may be a delay in our response times.

Seafarers
New Zealand (toll free): 0508 SEACERT or 0508 732 237
Calling from outside New Zealand: +64 4 473 0111

Operators, vessel safety, ship registration, exemptions and all other commercial enquiries
New Zealand (toll free): 0508 22 55 22
Calling from outside New Zealand: +64 4 473 0111

Our office and postal services

Our staff are working to provide services for you under the current COVID Alert Levels. Details on our opening hours will be available shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Although we are still using our postal service, there will be a significant delay for processing incoming and outgoing mail. Also we may have to stop this service if changes to the Government's COVID response requires us to.