The nasty GLOVIS COMPANION has just arrived in Zeebrugge. According to the port schedule she is due to depart tomorrow night.
MORNING CAPO This is the ship that left Shanghai on 3 Feb that is supposedly bringing a 2nd batch of Chinese made Model 3s to the UK - I’m once again beginning to doubt this and will lose interest in this ship unless some supporting evidence comes to light soon.
She is perilously close to getting herself into a bit of a pickle as she approaches the Straits of Gibraltar. The straits are divided into two 3.5nm wide one-way lanes separated by a 0.5 NM wide sterile zone. Traffic exiting the Med stay in the northern lane and traffic entering the Med take the southern lane. MORNING CAPO has managed somehow to find herself approaching the lanes from the southside meaning that she is going to have to find a gap in the eastbound traffic to cross so that she can enter the correct lane. The longer she leaves this the harder and more dangerous the manoeuvre will become. Having said that, she is pretty lucky in that the eastbound stream is not particularly busy today and there are some large gaps to choose from. If she leaves it too late she will end up doing a “Crazy Ivan”, crossing at a right angle across both streams of traffic.
UPDATE: She has managed to get herself safely across onto the correct side.
There is a speed limit in the straits which was introduced to provide some protection to the pod of whales that live there.
She will arrive in Southampton Eastern Docks at 0730 on Thursday and depart later the same day.
It is my opinion that if she had Teslas onboard she would be unloading in the Western docks.
LAKE GENEVA I’m a little puzzled with her navigation at the moment. It looks to me that she has abandoned the idea of passing through the Azores and has now adopted a great circle course direct to the English Channel. We shalll see if this is indeed the case over the coming days if her positions show she is paralleling the ideal great circle course (the blue line) on the chart. She is also now steaming directly into a 20kt headwind and a NW’ly Atlantic swell of over 3m - not particularly challenging for an ocean-going vessel but it will be noticeable on the fuel consumption figures and the arrhythmic deck movement. She’s also only making just over 16kts at the moment.
Her ETA for Zeebrugge is 0700Z on 7 Mar which she won’t make at her present rate.
GLOVIS SIRIUS is making excellent progress south at just over 17kts along the Mexican Pacific coast.
She is currently 40NM off the coast about 150nm southeast of Acapulco.
The weather continues to look fine for the moment.
She is scheduled to arrive off Panama on Wednesday evening and I expect her to transit the canal on Thursday, however she is running ahead of schedule at the moment and will arrive much earlier if she continues at her present rate.
I have pencilled her in to arrive in Zeebrugge around 15 Mar.
Enter the GLOVIS SIRIUS competition. Click HERE to enter
VIKING BRAVERY is scheduled to depart from New Jersey this Wednesday bound for Zeebrugge. This continues the custom for Tesla to squeeze an extra boatload to Europe by sending the cars overland by train to New Jersey and then loading them onto a ship from there. I estimate that she will arrive in Zeebrugge around 11 Mar which will be ahead of GLOVIS SIRIUS.
The VIKING BRAVERY competition is open - it will close the moment she departs from New Jersey. Click HERE to enter.
MORNING CAPO This is the ship that left Shanghai on 3 Feb that is supposedly bringing a 2nd batch of Chinese made Model 3s to the UK - I’m once again beginning to doubt this and will lose interest in this ship unless some supporting evidence comes to light soon.
She is perilously close to getting herself into a bit of a pickle as she approaches the Straits of Gibraltar. The straits are divided into two 3.5nm wide one-way lanes separated by a 0.5 NM wide sterile zone. Traffic exiting the Med stay in the northern lane and traffic entering the Med take the southern lane. MORNING CAPO has managed somehow to find herself approaching the lanes from the southside meaning that she is going to have to find a gap in the eastbound traffic to cross so that she can enter the correct lane. The longer she leaves this the harder and more dangerous the manoeuvre will become. Having said that, she is pretty lucky in that the eastbound stream is not particularly busy today and there are some large gaps to choose from. If she leaves it too late she will end up doing a “Crazy Ivan”, crossing at a right angle across both streams of traffic.
UPDATE: She has managed to get herself safely across onto the correct side.
There is a speed limit in the straits which was introduced to provide some protection to the pod of whales that live there.
She will arrive in Southampton Eastern Docks at 0730 on Thursday and depart later the same day.
It is my opinion that if she had Teslas onboard she would be unloading in the Western docks.
LAKE GENEVA I’m a little puzzled with her navigation at the moment. It looks to me that she has abandoned the idea of passing through the Azores and has now adopted a great circle course direct to the English Channel. We shalll see if this is indeed the case over the coming days if her positions show she is paralleling the ideal great circle course (the blue line) on the chart. She is also now steaming directly into a 20kt headwind and a NW’ly Atlantic swell of over 3m - not particularly challenging for an ocean-going vessel but it will be noticeable on the fuel consumption figures and the arrhythmic deck movement. She’s also only making just over 16kts at the moment.
Her ETA for Zeebrugge is 0700Z on 7 Mar which she won’t make at her present rate.
GLOVIS SIRIUS is making excellent progress south at just over 17kts along the Mexican Pacific coast.
She is currently 40NM off the coast about 150nm southeast of Acapulco.
The weather continues to look fine for the moment.
She is scheduled to arrive off Panama on Wednesday evening and I expect her to transit the canal on Thursday, however she is running ahead of schedule at the moment and will arrive much earlier if she continues at her present rate.
I have pencilled her in to arrive in Zeebrugge around 15 Mar.
Enter the GLOVIS SIRIUS competition. Click HERE to enter
VIKING BRAVERY is scheduled to depart from New Jersey this Wednesday bound for Zeebrugge. This continues the custom for Tesla to squeeze an extra boatload to Europe by sending the cars overland by train to New Jersey and then loading them onto a ship from there. I estimate that she will arrive in Zeebrugge around 11 Mar which will be ahead of GLOVIS SIRIUS.
The VIKING BRAVERY competition is open - it will close the moment she departs from New Jersey. Click HERE to enter.
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