LAKE FUXIAN continues to make good progress across the Atlantic.
She is presently about 100 NM north of Flores, the most westerly island in the Azores, and is maintaining her ENE’ly course to avoid the weather to the north of her - a fine strategy.
Her ETA for Zeebrugge is 22 May and the Zeebrugge port schedule is in agreement.
GLOVIS CHORUS is averaging about 17 kts as she heads in to the North Atlantic.
She entered the North Atlantic yesterday evening via the Mona Passage.
She is already about 240 NM north of Puerto Rico on a great circle course direct to the English Channel.
She is entering quite a large area of unstable warm moist air which will trigger frequent thunderstorms over the next few days but other than that the weather is unremarkable. Despite lots of warnings of an early start of the hurricane season this year we have yet to see the first named storm in the region and GLOVIS CHORUS has enjoyed a free run through the area.
Her ETA in Zeebrugge is 27 May.
GLOVIS CENTURY is presently about 60NM south of Cabo San Lucas making 16kts.
I currently estimate that her arrival in Zeebrugge will be around 5 Jun
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The next ship to arrive at Pier 80 will be
GLOVIS COUNTESS.
She is due alongside on Wednesday but I can’t see her arriving there until the early hours of Thursday at best, since she is only just arriving at the port of Hueneme at the moment, about 6 hours behind schedule I think.
I strongly suspect this will be the final ship of the quarter to leave for Europe from Pier 80.
It’s hard to give an estimate for her arrival in Zeebrugge since loading at Pier 80 is taking so much longer at present but I will take a stab at around 14 Jun.
GLOVIS SUN will arrive from Shanghai at Suez later tonight and I expect will transit the canal tomorrow.
She is currently entering the Gulf of Suez in excellent weather conditions.
My ETA for her in Zeebrugge is 28 May and possibly Southampton around 31 May.
The Zeebrugge Port Schedule is still showing her arriving there on 4 Jun.
Hopefully her routing from Suez will be clarified tomorrow once she clears the canal.
LAKE GENEVA is enroute to Suez with an ETA of 27 May.
She is currently maintaining just over 15kts as she crosses the Arabian Sea.
She is in an area where she will encounter frequent thunderstorms accompanied with heavy rainfall.
I estimate that she will arrive at Zeebrugge around 6 Jun.
HYPERION RAY is the ship that I believe will be coming to Southampton.
She is routing non-stop to Suez and is currently enjoying excellent weather in the South China Sea making 17kts.
She should pass through the busy Singapore Straits tomorrow.
I expect her to arrive in Southampton around 8 Jun.
There is still no sign that any of the above 3 ships from Shanghai will call in at Ashdod, Israel - perhaps they won't.
Satellite data supplied courtesy of marinetraffic
