HELIOS RAY has departed Ashdod to Southampton and has revised her ETA to 20 Nov which is much more sensible than the 22 Nov she was quoting earlier. Her arrival there does however cause a clash with VIKING OCEAN.
VIKING OCEAN is doing 14kts enroute to Southampton where she is also due to arrive on 20 Nov. She could arrive earlier but it very much depends on the booking made for Southampton. A year or so ago a port booking especially for Southampton was set in stone, and if you missed your booking you could have a long wait. Nowadays with global port congestion causing havoc to ship's schedules, the port booking means very little and ships are allocated berths almost on a first come first served basis. Southampton is a complicated port in that there is very little flexibility to switch traffic to other vacant berths and RoRos wanting to unload Teslas are limited to just 2 or 3 berths. Added to the fact that real estate to park the unloaded vehicles is also limted and expensive, the idea of 2 ships arriving at the same time or even one behind the other with no gap is a really bad one. It just makes me wonder whether VIKING OCEAN is actually carrying Teslas? The Southampton port schedule which used to reliably forecast out to 10 days is now reduced to just 5 days ahead and that will tell us a lot - we just have to wait.
GLOVIS CHALLENGE after racing up the Red Sea overtaking HOEGH KOBE in the process, found herself allocated to a Suez convoy and positioned directly behind HOEGH KOBE. Anyway she has just completed the transit and is emerging into the Med and can now head for Koper where she is due to unload on Sunday.
HOEGH KOBE is just emerging from the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean and can now set course for Piraeus where she is due to arrive on Saturday.
There is port congestion there at present and I hope she won't be delayed too much - it might be wise for her to go full speed to stake her place in the queue. She is not due to arrive in Zeebrugge until 22 Nov.
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NABUCCO She is heading to Southampton and Zeebrugge and is about to enter the Gulf of Aden making 18kts towards Suez. I estimate she will arrive in Southampton on 26 Nov and Zeebrugge 28 Nov.
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HYPERION RAY has, as expected, switched off her AIS transmitter albeit a little earlier than one would hope. She is currently in the Arabian Sea heading towards Suez and I have estimated her position on the chart. She's due to arrive there on 17 Nov and then I expect her to race to Southampton to arrive on 25 Nov. Zeebrugge on 27 Nov.
HOEGH TRACER is on a scheduled service following much the same route as HOEGH KOBE. We have already seen evidence that she is carrying some Teslas (check your VIN on
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She is presently between the Maldives and the southern tip of India making 16 kts towards her next stop at Port Sudan.
HORIZON LEADER is currently refuelling off Singapore and I expect her to depart to Suez later today.
Over in Shanghai, we are seeing once again that loading at Shanghai south takes much longer than at Shanghai Haitong - we saw this in Q3. There could be lots of reasons for this eg customs (it's not normally used for exports), inexperienced personnel, fewer personnel, lack of working space etc etc.
DREAM JASMINE departed a day late to Japan and
GRAND DAHLIA is now not expected alongside there until late tonight (UK time). She is due in Southampton on 10 Dec and Zeebrugge on 12 Dec although I expect those dates may well slip right....
BROOKLANDS has departed to Singapore and features on my watch list.
I note PLATINUM RAY is in the area. This ship has Tesla history and I will be watching to see where she departs to.
), but also that the car had allready been built, but not been shiped yet. Shipping should start very soon and delivery 2nd half of december. No ship name unfortunately.
