GMV Aranui was a roll-on/roll-off train ferry operating across the Cook Strait between 1965 and 1984.

[3][4] In February 1965, she sailed via the Panama Canal, arriving in Wellington on 28 May[4] and entered service with her sister GMV Aramoana on 9 June.

Aranui was laid up in Wellington in June 1984 and sold four months later to the Najd Trading & Construction Company of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

[4][11] Renamed Aranui A and then Nui, she commenced service carrying Muslim pilgrims on the Red Sea.

Aranui was built to operate a railway service between Wellington and Picton, later known as the Interislander.