Ships Stores
Ships stores are any goods (including tobacco and alcohol) for use or consumption on board a craft by passengers or crew, or for the service of a craft. (Duty free stores are stores which may, under certain conditions, be shipped from New Zealand free of Customs duty.)
Ships stores, for consumption on board, are permitted to be issued from the ship’s bond during the stay of a cruise vessel in New Zealand. This must be in line with the quantities approved by Customs, according to the number of passengers and crew, and the length of the craft’s stay in New Zealand.
The following quantities may be approved, per person, as ships stores:
- beer – 3 x cans or bottles not exceeding 375mls per day and
- wine – 1 x 750ml bottle per day and
- spirits or liqueurs – 2 x 1125ml bottle per 10 days and
- cigarettes – 20 cigarettes per day and
- tobacco – 250 grams per 10 days and
- cigars – 5 (regardless of weight) per 10 days.
To avoid the need for additional stores requisitions while the vessel is in New Zealand, overall quantities of these stores can be issued at one time for a minimum 10 day period, and will normally cover the period that the craft is in New Zealand.
This entitlement is subject to the condition that no passengers or cargo are embarked at one port in New Zealand for disembarkation at another port in New Zealand.