GRAND DAHLIA has arrived off Zeebrugge to unload at kaai 509. Her stay in Zeebrugge has been shortened and she will now depart at 06:00 on 15th to ??? I doubt this is a full unload, so a part load may be off to somewhere, but not to the UK since she still does not appear on the Southampton arrivals board. Not Amsterdam nor Drammen, Norway either. Bremerhaven, perhaps?
GLOVIS CAPTAIN is making good time. Her midday position is shown on the chart below. The good news is that her schedule has now changed - previously she was heading to S Africa after her Tesla commitment but now she is heading to the Middle East and then on to the Far East. This brand new schedule published yesterday shows her loading in Southampton on 24 Aug which means that she could arrive on 23 Aug from Zeebrugge to unload. She could also be the means by which those RHD cars GRAND DAHLIA left on the dock at Zeebrugge will get to Southampton. This also fits in with promised delivery dates.
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RCC ASIA continues to race down the Pacific coast of Mexico towards Panama. She is due to arrive there next Tuesday and will probably transit the canal on Wednesday morning. ETA Zeebrugge on 31 Aug. The weather remains fine for her at the moment (she gave Hurricane Elida a wide berth) however it could get a bit rough later tomorrow between Puerta Vallarta and Acapulco. Over the weekend she will also encounter some stormy weather off Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Don’t forget to enter the competition! There have been some entries that clearly have had a lot of thought applied and then there is @Medved_77 ’s entry of Gridsquare AI20.
(I think I can confidently say he’s out of the running unless of course there is a flood of biblical proportions and the ship is hijacked by pirates from Niger! We shall see…)
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GLOVIS STELLA has departed Pier 80 after just under 24 hours alongside bound for Shanghai. I don’t believe the Shanghai GF is making the complete range yet and so this could be delivering those specific orders.
GRAND PEARL I'm not convinced she will turn up at Pier 80, despite what the port schedule says.
So now we wait for GLOVIS SIGMA to pitch up to load on Monday. She’s a big ship, about the same size as GLOVIS SUN, and I believe will be coming to Europe. She will have to use the new locks in the Panama Canal because she is so wide (35.43m).
GLOVIS CAPTAIN is making good time. Her midday position is shown on the chart below. The good news is that her schedule has now changed - previously she was heading to S Africa after her Tesla commitment but now she is heading to the Middle East and then on to the Far East. This brand new schedule published yesterday shows her loading in Southampton on 24 Aug which means that she could arrive on 23 Aug from Zeebrugge to unload. She could also be the means by which those RHD cars GRAND DAHLIA left on the dock at Zeebrugge will get to Southampton. This also fits in with promised delivery dates.
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RCC ASIA continues to race down the Pacific coast of Mexico towards Panama. She is due to arrive there next Tuesday and will probably transit the canal on Wednesday morning. ETA Zeebrugge on 31 Aug. The weather remains fine for her at the moment (she gave Hurricane Elida a wide berth) however it could get a bit rough later tomorrow between Puerta Vallarta and Acapulco. Over the weekend she will also encounter some stormy weather off Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Don’t forget to enter the competition! There have been some entries that clearly have had a lot of thought applied and then there is @Medved_77 ’s entry of Gridsquare AI20.
(I think I can confidently say he’s out of the running unless of course there is a flood of biblical proportions and the ship is hijacked by pirates from Niger! We shall see…)View attachment 575707
GLOVIS STELLA has departed Pier 80 after just under 24 hours alongside bound for Shanghai. I don’t believe the Shanghai GF is making the complete range yet and so this could be delivering those specific orders.
GRAND PEARL I'm not convinced she will turn up at Pier 80, despite what the port schedule says.
So now we wait for GLOVIS SIGMA to pitch up to load on Monday. She’s a big ship, about the same size as GLOVIS SUN, and I believe will be coming to Europe. She will have to use the new locks in the Panama Canal because she is so wide (35.43m).
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