Prometheus Leader which normally sticks to Europe, and often takes Tesla from Zeebrugge to Scandinavia has just set sail for Port Said, it's small and very unlikely I think to be going to Shanghai and back by September 30th, but unusually it has no schedule displayed on the UECC website. Thoughts anyone?
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but what about all the cars estimated (by the dealer, not EDD) to be delivered around 20.08? there are a few of us with the dealers confirmation.
more than that for the leasing ones, the dealer confirmed insurance start date 20.08.
more then that, initial planned pick up from the dealer was 06.08. not happening. than most of RO customers have planned pick up from dealer around 20.08. even the insurance start date for the leasing ones is set for 20.08.
will the pick up date planned be postponed (again)?
not sure, around middle of JULY.
EdwardHighveen
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Hi, just looked at some ships coming in to Zeebrugge tonight, The Leo Spirit (no Tesla's) will dock just before the Traviata. This could explain why Traviata has to dock at a different place as usual, and cannot be ruled out carrying Tesla's. Keeping fingers crossed.
So either COMPANION or ANTWERP (which has already set sail) could be the UK inbound ships. Either way, this is a good sign for all us waiting for updates from Tesla
SparksTheory
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Our cars are on one of those boats. I can feel it!So either COMPANION or ANTWERP (which has already set sail) could be the UK inbound ships. Either way, this is a good sign for all us waiting for updates from Tesla
As the saying goes, wait for a VIN or get nothin'..
@Mr Miserable , do you think SEA PATRIS is a Tesla carrier? Arrive at Koper on 06.08 I have a VIN fro M3 SR+ from 19.07 and EDD 06-20.08
@Mr Miserable my vin is LRW3E7FR4NC559275 with an ETA 6-20 August in Romania. If glovis is not heading to koper, which ship has my car?
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It may be heading to the Far East for maintenance/dry dock.
The removal of Russian trade has put some slack in UECC and KESS schedules.
Just to calm expectations, GLOVIS COMPANION isn't a giant RoRo - she's a standard Panamax size 200m long and 32.2m wide.
HARVEST LEADER which preceeded her was a much bigger vessel as is GLOVIS SUMMIT.
One of the major limits to the size of ships was the size of the locks in the Panama Canal. They could only accomodate ships up to 32.2m wide.
There were other restrictions too (draft etc) and so a large percentage of ships were built to the maximum size that could fit through the locks - Panamax.
For years this was the case and is the reason why you see so many ships of this size.
In 2016 the new locks were opened in Panama. These could accomodate much larger ships (although there are still other restrictions which restrict the number of large ships that can navigate the canal)
Now many of the 'giant' RoRos are about 38m in width and nearly 240m in length. The problem now is that many docks were constructed to handle the ubiquitous Panamax vessels and they now need to be altered if they want to handle the big fellas.
There are no locks in the Suez Canal and so ships that were too big for the Panama Canal could still use the Suez Canal.
I was going to ask this question actually - that is: is this really a "giant" RoRo by industry standards. This helps clear it up, thanks.
Next question is, based on your knowledge, what's the total number of Tesla's she could theoretically carry? I recall you mentioning prior that Tesla started loading them slightly differently so that they could squeeze more on (can't remember the exact detail, but something like they could load them to be closer to each other due to the orientation and logistics of the drivers getting out of the car)?
Odd question for you. In the video, you can see the ships ramp is down at the start of the video. Skipping ahead to the '4 hours later' at the end of the video with cars parked by the ship the ramp is going back up and closing. Is it normal to keep opening and closing like that? If so, could tidal patterns dictate that?
Hopefully not as presumably ramp is standard depth from water line so as tide rises so does ship.
Anecdote for you
When working at Nissan at port of Tyne was being driven off ship by employee transport when stopped by crew member jumping in front of car.
In high winds ropes had broken and stern had shifted from quayside and we would have driven straight into river Tyne.
Fryto
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It's not normal in my experience from working on roro. It's also unusual to see cars waiting for export parked with seemingly no way to get them out apart from reversing them (the ones parked right around that building) usually reversing is minimised, so it appears that are really struggling for space, despite all the empty car parking lots, go figure
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