# Invercargill Airport (IVC)

> Invercargill, NZ · IATA: IVC · ICAO: NZNV · Medium Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `IVC` |
| ICAO | `NZNV` |
| City | Invercargill |
| Country | NZ |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 2 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | -46.41240, 168.31300 |

## Description

For perishable exporters in Southland, the question at Invercargill Airport (IATA: IVC, ICAO: NZNV) is never whether a freighter is waiting but how fast a consignment reaches Christchurch or Auckland. Mainland New Zealand's southernmost commercial airport carries Bluff oysters, dairy, lamb and farmed salmon as belly cargo on Air New Zealand services to Christchurch and Wellington, backed by a courier and general-freight despatch counter in the terminal. There is no dedicated cargo terminal and no freighter rotation of its own, so forwarders such as Mainfreight treat the field as a road-air feeder point. Export shipments are cleared and loaded at Christchurch (CHC) and Auckland (AKL), with Dunedin (DUD) the nearest regional alternative. From mid-January 2026 the airport has been resurfacing its runway across roughly thirty night shifts, the first such renewal in fifteen years and designed to last another fifteen. Working at night keeps the daytime schedule, and with it time-critical perishables, largely undisturbed.

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