Summary: Saturday 29 Oct
GRANDE CALIFORNIA arrived last night to an anchorage off Koper. She apparently has 5000 Teslas onboard (724 MY, 4276 M3) Despite arriving early the port schedule remains unchanged and still shows her docking tomorrow.
HOEGH COPENHAGEN ETA Zeebrugge on 03 Nov. The ship is on a scheduled service and is currently preparing to depart to Zeebrugge from Sagunto, Spain.
VIKING QUEEN ETA Barcelona 07 Nov.
GLOVIS SUMMIT ETA Southampton 16 Nov. She can easily make Southampton for the 16 Nov.
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GRANDE ABIDJAN is enroute to Suez (7/11). I am a bit puzzled by this ship (she's not big enough for a normal Tesla shipment) and so she may not be on Tesla business. Could she be heading for Israel?? (Ashdod around 9 Nov?)
RCC AMSTERDAM ETA Koper 15 Nov. I know the 15 Nov date for Koper is correct but at her present rate she will arrive there days ahead of schedule. Could she be visiting another port prior to Koper? GRANDE CALIFORNIA arrived there early too without any known reason.
HYPERION RAY is enroute for Suez . Her final destination remains unknown at present but almost certainly will be an EU port. (ETAs roughly KOP 17/11, BCN 18/11 or ZEE 21/11). (There is a suggestion that it will be Barcelona.)
CARRERA ETA Zeebrugge 25 Nov.
RCC EUROPE ETA Southampton 24 Nov. She is currently avoiding some rough weather in the South China Sea.
HOEGH TRADER ETA Zeebrugge 30 Nov. She is yet to be confirmed as carrying Teslas but I think it is highly likely that she is.
The forecast for the tropical storm I mentioned yesterday has changed. It is now saying that it will develop into a Typhoon but its path will be much more southerly - towards Hong Kong rather than Shanghai. The South China Sea is already pretty rough (note RCC EUROPE's track on the map is well to the west to avoid the worst of the weather) and it will be interesting to see how HOEGH TRADER's course southwards will be affected by the developing storm. I would guess she will pass to the east of Taiwan and aim to pass behind the storm. Whatever, she will be in no rush to head south at the moment.
GRAND RACE has arrived in Mokpo, S Korea after a voyage from Pier 80. She should continue on to Taiwan.
NOBLE ACE is enroute to Taiwan (ETA 09 Nov) from Pier 80.
As always I will add the ships to the map
here, so you can follow their progress.
I think we may see one more ship to Southampton this quarter. At the moment I'm tipping MORNING CELLO (ETA Southampton 6 Dec) but that can change....