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2020 Shipping Movements
- Thread starter Mr Miserable
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Here is the Miraflores locks crossing of RCC ANTWERP. The video has been sped up, the original being 39 minutes long including the dock being drained and filled with RCC ANTWERP setting off on her voyage again.
BTW Not all the ships anchored at the entrances to the Canal are waiting to transit. Some of the ships are waiting for work and the Panama Canal is a good strategic location. Conducting crew changes in the COVID era is very difficult however Panama has a scheme with KLM, Air France and COPA to conduct routine crew changes in Panama making it very attractive to ship operators.
Well the canal was run by the Americans until Carter (I think) handed it over to the locals
How comes the TRITON ACE goes through Panama Canal roughly 8 days after RCC ANTWERP but arrives 10 Days after her in Zeebrugge?
Thanks for the heads up! Love this thread and your work!
P.S: my Service Agent checked for me that my M3LR is on TRITON ACE, so somehow your Service Agents can see for sure which vessel your car is on (hopefully i did not start a phone-storm at teslas service centres with that
)How comes the TRITON ACE goes through Panama Canal roughly 8 days after RCC ANTWERP but arrives 10 Days after her in Zeebrugge?
Thanks for the heads up! Love this thread and your work!
P.S: my Service Agent checked for me that my M3LR is on TRITON ACE, so somehow your Service Agents can see for sure which vessel your car is on (hopefully i did not start a phone-storm at teslas service centres with that
Nice, will try to ask my service agent, when did you order ? and what specs ?
How comes the TRITON ACE goes through Panama Canal roughly 8 days after RCC ANTWERP but arrives 10 Days after her in Zeebrugge?
Thanks for the heads up! Love this thread and your work!
P.S: my Service Agent checked for me that my M3LR is on TRITON ACE, so somehow your Service Agents can see for sure which vessel your car is on (hopefully i did not start a phone-storm at teslas service centres with that
If you look back at what I posted when RCC ANTWERP departed Pier 80
TRITON ACE will be a day quicker to Panama.
Well i see the different travel time TO Panama.
But how comes RCC ANTWERP, according your forecasted arrivals in Zeebrugge, travels 11 days after passing panama (30/10 to 10/11) and TRITON ACE travels 13 days (7/11 to 20/11) ?
RCC ANTWERP Dep SFO 20/10 Arr ZEE 10 Nov
TRITON ACE Dep SFO 30/10 Arr ZEE 20 Nov
Looks pretty well matched to me.
However that is not always the case. You should look at the variations on the spreadsheet here. The leg to Panama depends on when the transit is booked for (not every day is available). GLOVIS CLIPPER in Q3 raced to Panama from SFO in 7 days whereas GLOVIS SIGMA took 10 days for the same journey.
The transatlantic journey is largely dependent on the Zeebrugge port booking and particularly the handling agent. The handling agent can only handle so many cars and the docks have only so much space to park them. Earlier this year we saw a ship waiting off the Isle of Wight for a couple of days because there was no space in Southampton docks to park the unloaded cars.
Zeebrugge is about to be deluged with Teslas at the end of November/early December from USA and China - I hope the handling agent is ready for it!
And then there is the weather.....
TRITON ACE Dep SFO 30/10 Arr ZEE 20 Nov
Looks pretty well matched to me.
However that is not always the case. You should look at the variations on the spreadsheet here. The leg to Panama depends on when the transit is booked for (not every day is available). GLOVIS CLIPPER in Q3 raced to Panama from SFO in 7 days whereas GLOVIS SIGMA took 10 days for the same journey.
The transatlantic journey is largely dependent on the Zeebrugge port booking and particularly the handling agent. The handling agent can only handle so many cars and the docks have only so much space to park them. Earlier this year we saw a ship waiting off the Isle of Wight for a couple of days because there was no space in Southampton docks to park the unloaded cars.
Zeebrugge is about to be deluged with Teslas at the end of November/early December from USA and China - I hope the handling agent is ready for it!
And then there is the weather.....
ajs117
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Stats on MarineTraffic says the Antwerp hold 6500 cars, is that a bit optimistic or are they talking about city cars?
The industry standard unit of measure is an RT. 1 RT is a 1966 Toyota Corona. A Model 3 is longer, wider and importantly a lot heavier than one of those.
RCC ANTWERP has now entered the large man-made freshwater Gatun Lake.
On maps it looks like any other large lake however if you look at a marine chart you realise the navigable part of the lake is very small.
Large ships are confined to a narrow channel marked with bouys.
On maps it looks like any other large lake however if you look at a marine chart you realise the navigable part of the lake is very small.
Large ships are confined to a narrow channel marked with bouys.
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