TRITON ACE continues to progress across the Atlantic at 18kts.
At midday she was N39.3 W30.3 passing the island of Flores in the Azores
She has done well so far in avoiding the worst of the weather however conditions will start to deteriorate for her this afternoon with increasing wave heights over the next 24 hours but nothing dramatic enough to cause a delay in my opinion.
She will arrive in Zeebrugge on 20 Nov and Southampton on 22 Nov
GRAND AURORA transited the Mona Passage last night and is now in the Atlantic.
At midday her position was N21.4 W65.3 which is about 175nm N of Puerto Rico.
The weather looks OK for her, for the next couple of days at least.
Her ETA for Zeebrugge is 24 Nov and I estimate she should arrive in Southampton on 26/27 Nov.
I will announce the result of the GRAND AURORA competition shortly, I suspect we may have a direct hit!
TOSCANA No update to her position has been received but she should be around the base of the Sinai peninsula now and will arrive at Suez later this evening.
The weather continues to look fine for her although the longterm forecast for her transit of the Bay of Biscay in particular looks uncomfortable at the moment. There is plenty of time for that forecast to hopefully change for the better.
She is due to arrive in Zeebrugge on 27 Nov
GLOVIS CRYSTAL continues to make good progress southwards off the coast of the Baja California peninsula.
She should be looking carefully at the meteorological situation regarding Hurricane Iota which is about to hit Nicaragua. It is already a category 4 hurricane and so has the power to cross over into the Pacific just about when GLOVIS CRYSTAL will be passing. Additionally the wind circulation around the hurricane will probably cause the Tehuantepecer wind to develop and so a minor course correction now to the west could save some grief in a couple of days time.
Her ETA for Balboa is 01:00 23 Nov and so I estimate she will arrive in Zeebrugge on 5 Dec and Southampton a couple of days later.
The free GLOVIS CRYSTAL competition is up and running! Enter
HERE
TANNHAUSER is currently passing south of Sri Lanka making 18 kts
No weather issues.
She will arrive at Suez on 25 Nov and Zeebrugge of 6 Dec.
RCC AMSTERDAM is currently loading alongside Pier 80 and I have yet to be informed of when she is likely to depart but my guess would be late tomorrow night/early Wednesday morning.
I have revised my estimate for her Zeebrugge arrival to around 8 Dec
GLOVIS CAPTAIN is looking likely to be the next ship to load at pier 80.
I have her pencilled in to arrive in Zeebrugge around 14 Dec
GLOVIS SUN will be coming to Pier 80 to load in the coming days however at the moment I suspect that she will be heading to Asia.
I have yet to identify the final ship to Europe but another arriving just before Christmas may be on the cards - we shall see….