Autohub News
Agents Release and Shipping payments
Greetings, Further to the problems with Port congestion and delay issues here in NZ, our Transporter contractors advise they are facing increasing costs to operate on ports (Particularly Auckland...
Japanese Public Holidays
Greetings, Please be aware that Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd of July are public holidays in Japan and our offices, along with the banks will be closed. The Marine Day and...
Updated Factsheet for Dealers on EV rebates
Greetings, Please see NZTA’s updated Factsheet for dealers regarding EV rebates and process to “re- register” EV’s that were registered prior to July 1st, so they can qualify for rebates....
New Electric Vehicle Rebates – July 1st 2021
Greetings, Please see below NZTA Clean Car factsheet for Dealers on EV rebates. The specific email address to send rebate applications to is cleancars@nzta.govt.nz Any further inquiries, please...
Shipping packages – Price increase July 1st 2021
Greetings... As per our previous customer advisory notice on May 20th advising of likely freight price increases, Autohub has now been informed by all shipping companies we use of cost increases...
Customer Notice – Spam Emails
Dear Valued Customers, ***CAUTION*** Please be aware that there may be scam emails circulating at present with reference to Autohub and outstanding invoices. The below screenshots provide an example...
Time to prepare for change…
Greetings, All of us in the used imported vehicle industry know that nothing is “normal” of late…99% of what we face in the course of daily business has been affected by COVID. We are lucky in NZ to...
Golden Week 2021
Dear Valued Customers, This year Golden Week starts on Thursday the 29th of April and offices in Japan will be closing for the holidays, with staff returning to work as normal on Thursday the 6th of...
Heat Treatment Ends – April 2021
Dear valued customers, Please note that the seasonal BMSB (heat treatment) surcharge for used Japanese vehicles is due to cease at the end of April. At this stage, mandatory heat treatment will no...
BAF charges for Japan to NZ
Greetings, We have been advised by our Japan-to-NZ RORO service shipping lines that due to increased Bunker fuel prices, and other associated cost increases, BAF surcharges will be added very...
Toyota and Lexus vehicles equipped with “ITS-Connect”
Greetings, Autohub received this news alert from VIA recently, as will many of you. We have followed this up directly with NZTA and with Japan to see what the implications and solutions are. While...
BAF charges
Greetings, Autohub has been advised recently by several shipping lines that bunker fuel prices have increased significantly in the last 6 months. This together with additional delays and fuel...
Alert Level 3 – Customer Update
Good morning, As you will no doubt be aware, Auckland has been placed into alert level 3 to contain a new community outbreak. As a result the office will be closed and all staff will be working from...
MTA notice Vehicle Dealers and Importers
Greetings, As you may know, the Government is looking to put in place changes to the range of vehicles (new and used) that NZ imports, so that the Climate Change accords NZ has signed up to can be...
Dream Jasmine v07
“Dear Valued Customers, Please be advised that MPI has ordered all vehicles on the Dream Jasmine v07 to be ramped and MPI verified (inspected) in Auckland. Unfortunately this will result in delivery...
Season’s Greetings!
We are nearing the end of 2020, and for many of us, it couldn’t come soon enough… COIVD has become a normal word in our daily vocabulary this year, and is in the main the reason for our business...