2020 Shipping Movements

[Rustybkts]

Glovis Cosmos is heading to Southampton berth 104 by the fruit terminal on Feb 11th in the morning, group meet at IKEA?

I haven't had Swedish meatballs for a while now yum yum.
My red SR+ with tow bar should be on that ship as I received a text regarding the order last week.
Early Jan order and spotted my spec and grabbed it on 29th Jan.

 

[Mr Miserable]

Let’s hope the cars are ok, do they chain them in or are they just sat with parking brake on?

Each wheel is lashed and the cars are parked as close together as possible. It means not only can they fit more cars on but if a car does come loose it will be held roughly in place by those cars surrounding it. OK those cars will be damaged too but nothing in comparison to the damage a unrestrained car would do.
Those with aero covers are shipped with them off.

 

[D4v1d]

Zeebrugge

 

[Mr Miserable]

Zeebrugge

Interesting because that is not the regular Tesla dock.
No charge points either.

 

[JupiterMan]

Zeebrugge

I think I spot some 19" sport wheels on one of those cars... and a blue one no less....

 

[OfficialMark_H]

Each wheel is lashed and the cars are parked as close together as possible. It means not only can they fit more cars on but if a car does come loose it will be held roughly in place by those cars surrounding it. OK those cars will be damaged too but nothing in comparison to the damage a unrestrained car would do.
Those with aero covers are shipped with them off.

Thank you. Will it be delayed due to the current weather situation? When would you expect it to leave dock to arrive at Southampton by Tuesday morning?

 

[OfficialMark_H]

Zeebrugge

Great picture, thank you for sharing

 

[Mr Miserable]

I think I spot some 19" sport wheels on one of those cars... and a blue one no less....

Surely you don't want your car to have been offloaded in Zeebrugge?

Thank you. Will it be delayed due to the current weather situation? When would you expect it to leave dock to arrive at Southampton by Tuesday morning?

The problems associated with this weather are usually because it's too dangerous to transfer a pilot.
That is compounded by the problems of Zeebrugge - the locks and the narrow channel both of which will be a challenge for a slab sided ship in these winds.

At the end of the day, commercial pressure will probably sway the decisions..

 

[LongRanger]

I reckon even the least patient of our fellow TMC’ers waiting for their cars would rather wait an extra 1-2 days than have their car bashed up or spec changed to “premium salty interior”, but they do seem to sail in all sorts up to a limit so maybe it just crosses and we all never find out about the rough crossing impact on the vehicles.

 

[JupiterMan]

Surely you don't want your car to have been offloaded in Zeebrugge?

absolutely not! but at least this is a visual confirmation that the 19" wheels are shipping!

 

[*Adam]

I’ll keep an eye on timings of it travelling up the Solent.

I’m now off for a few weeks so can do a bit of ship spotting.........never thought I’d say that

 

[Mr Miserable]

Looking at the progress of ships heading into the weather in the Channel at the moment, I think it would be surprising if the Cosmos is not late in arriving at Southampton. Some ships are just making 3 knots.

 

[Mr Miserable]

I see the cross channel ferries are staying out and riding out the storm at the moment.

 

[LongRanger]

Having read that accident report you posted Mr M, hopefully they have the UK cars lower in the loading decks and didn’t empty all the EU cars leaving RHD up top ..... seemed like a real schoolboy error. As you say, these are big slabs being asked to float and stay afloat !

 

[Mr H]

The weather warnings for wind will be lifted at midnight, maybe Cosmos will sail in the early hours.

I think it's poor planning to go past Southampton to Zeebrugge then back to Southampton and then pass Zeebrugge to Bremerhaven. Why not just go Southampton - Zeebrugge - Bremerhaven?

 

[Mr Miserable]

The weather warnings for wind will be lifted at midnight, maybe Cosmos will sail in the early hours

Yes but in the Channel the wind will still be 40 kts and the waves will remain to be high. (minimum of 14ft forecast). The Cosmos will have to battle this short sea head on (short sea = waves close together, in this case every 8 seconds)

 

[planehazza]

Having read that accident report you posted Mr M, hopefully they have the UK cars lower in the loading decks and didn’t empty all the EU cars leaving RHD up top ..... seemed like a real schoolboy error. As you say, these are big slabs being asked to float and stay afloat !

Have you got a link please?

 

[LongRanger]

Have you got a link please?

See post 417

 

[Mr H]

Yes but in the Channel the wind will still be 40 kts and the waves will remain to be high. (minimum of 14ft forecast). The Cosmos will have to battle this short sea head on (short sea = waves close together, in this case every 8 seconds)

Still hoping for delivery next weekend

 

[D4v1d]

To be honest I’d rather wait a few days delay for a car. Rather than have these poor guys on that ship risk there lives.