Evening all! Sunday 22 May 2022 update.
GLOVIS SPLENDOR is halfway across the Arabian Sea on her voyage to Koper, Slovenia. I expect she will arrive there around 01 Jun.
THEBEN has now departed Singapore and is making her way through the notorious Straits of Malacca. These waters were until very recently notorious for piracy and regularly patrolled by Royal Navy and Dutch warships amongst others. Now the patrolling is being done very successfully by the neighbouring countries of Malyasia and Indonesia and the piracy problem here has almost evaporated. The tall sides of a RoRo make them a difficult target to board and so the pirates will tend to go for easier pickings. Anyway her ETA for Suez is 04 Jun which is pretty unambitious and easily achievable. She will then head for Zeebrugge to arrive on 14 Jun.
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RCC EUROPE is maintaining 17 kts on her voyage to Singapore. She is due there on Wednesday evening for a refuel. We still don't know her destination (and to be honest we won't know for sure until she departs Suez around 09 Jun) but she could make Southampton around 17 Jun.
MORNING PEACE has departed the Haitong terminal after 36 hours or so of loading. She is heading for a refuel in Singapore initially before setting course for Southampton (21 Jun) and Zeebrugge (23 Jun). I'm not convinced she is a Tesla vessel though. I don't intend to track her but she is on my watch list.
HORIZON LEADER remains holding offshore waiting to be called in to Shanghai South to load. Let's hope she doesn't have to wait much longer as I reckon the latest departure for UK will need to leave around Thursday or Friday at the latest to guarantee deliveries by quarter-end. That said, as someone mentioned in an earlier post, there was a shipment to Amsterdam from San Francisco in Dec 19 on our friend RCC EUROPE that arrived on 20 Dec. Everybody had to collect their car from the docks, which everyone did because there was a change in Dutch EV taxation from 01 Jan 20 that made it very worthwhile for them to do so.
Finally, I have said it before but it seems it needs repeating, Tesla have not matched orders or allocated VINS for cars on GLOVIS SPLENDOR yet and she departed Shanghai 11 days ago! So based on that knowledge I think some folk need to temper their expectations. The sole reason you are reading this thread is because you have unknowingly entered the Tesla blackout zone and will generally hear nothing until a couple of weeks before pickup day. You may think you have been waiting a long time but believe me when I say that the time from notification of collection day to collection day itself seems an eternity!