My daily summary was late yesterday and so today I thought I would be a little early....
GLOVIS CRYSTAL arrived alongside Southampton earlier this morning
RCC AMSTERDAM departed Zeebrugge this morning enroute to Southampton where she will arrive off later tonight.
This is a little odd as at the moment Southampton are not expecting her until early Tuesday morning.
Hopefully, there may be an opportunity for her to dock before then, but it's not looking good. I can see a couple of Grimaldi ships already in the queue waiting for GLOVIS CRYSTAL to depart.
It may also depend on whether there is space available to park her cars - I suspect not since GLOVIS CRYSTAL will have just filled the allocated spaces. Tesla need to create space in Southampton by shifting some cars from there quickly!
The port of Southampton may offer some extra space but it will not come cheap.
LYDDEN is continuing her fast transit. She is about 200nm NE of the Azores and continuing to maintain 18kts.
She has just changed on to a NE’ly course towards the English Channel. She will have taken a much longer route in terms of distance but will have avoided the worst of the weather and resulted in a shorter route timewise.
Her AIS is showing that she aims to arrive in Amsterdam at 0900 on 14 Dec - a very ambitious ETA, although the Port of Amsterdam has her arriving at 1345 on 14 Dec. Surprisingly, at the moment she remains on track to achieve the former.
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GLOVIS SUN remains stationary SW of the Azores and I do not know why.
It will come as no surprise that her current estimate for Zeebrugge of 1300 on 15 Dec is now out of the window.
The situation is even more bizarre because she has been joined by another car carrier ELEGANT ACE doing exactly the same thing 20nm away from her.
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