Intercity (New Zealand)

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Intercity Holdings Limited is a passenger transport and tourism company and operates New Zealand's largest coach transportation network. It is owned by listed company Tourism Holdings Ltd and private investors. It has several brands:

  • Intercity highway bus services
  • the slightly more up-market Newmans Coach Lines between major cities and major tourist centres
  • Intercity Link on secondary feeder routes
  • Great Sights sightseeing coach services
  • Fullers Bay of Islands coach and boat sighteeing services in New Zealand's Far North District
  • Kings dolphin tours and boat cruises

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[edit] History

Intercity is usually seen as the successor to the New Zealand Railways Road Services but the history is a little more complicated. New Zealand Railways' rail and road services were combined in 1985 as the Passenger Services Division of New Zealand Railways Corporation. Intercity began in 1985 as the brand for long-distance rail and road services. In 1991 the rail-based assets were transferred to New Zealand Rail Limited and the long-distance road business and Intercity name were bought in 1991 by Intercity Group New Zealand Limited [1], a group of four of the country's largest private coach companies - Ritchies Coachlines, Tranzit, PTL Route Services and Nelson SBL.

On 1st December 2007 Tourism Holdings Ltd entered into a joint venture with the owners of Intercity Group. A new company Intercity Holdings Limited was formed and now holds the THL businesses of Great Sights and Fullers Bay of Islands and the Intercity businesses of Kings and Intercity Coachlines [1] .

[edit] Newmans

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InterCity bought Newmans Coach Lines from the Newmans Group which had began with a horse drawn carriage service in 1879 and grew into trucking and mining conglomerate Transport (Nelson) Ltd.

[edit] Carbon neutral

In May 2007 Intercity announced its intention to become a carbon neutral company over the next three years, using carbon credits from Landcare Research's carboNZero programme[2].

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Financial & Investor Information from www.thlnz.co.nz, retrieved 21 December 2007
  2. ^ scoop.co.nz