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Inter-European Shipping and Deliveries

Skatebambi

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Nov 14, 2020
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Sweden
reading this schedule https://uecc.com/pdfschedule/schedule.pdf is a bit worrying. Doesn't look like Opal Leader is going to Drammen. But if you use that search funtion you used before, it still looks like it.

I guess we find out sunday/monday on marinetraffic.com :p

Can you enter the car VIN number in this search box to find out if it is actually on the boat ?
Tried entering my car's VIN doesn't respond, think a log in is needed
 

Jaap-Jan

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Nov 7, 2020
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Overijssel, NL
@Mr Miserable Do you know how long unloading usually takes? When are the cars loaded onto trucks and carried to the delievery centers? Here in Germany it seems that cars are delivered to owners about 7 days later after a ship has arrived.
As far as I can see it takes about a week for the Netherlands as well to make the cars available for pickup at the Koopman Terminal in Amsterdam.

So I hope the GLOVIS SUN is becoming to Europe, because if it's the GLOVIS CAPTAIN, and loading will commence on Tuesday, that ship is likely ready to depart at the end of next week, Friday at the earliest, I guess. That would mean those cars are ready to be collected in the last week of December, which has only four days. And since the tax benefits only apply to cars that received their license plate in 2020, you can imagine it's quite important those cars arrive in time.
 
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Mr Miserable

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Jul 8, 2019
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As far as I can see it takes about a week for the Netherlands as well to make the cars available for pickup at the Koopman Terminal in Amsterdam.

So I hope the GLOVIS SUN is becoming to Europe, because if it's the GLOVIS CAPTAIN, and loading will commence on Tuesday, that ship is likely ready to depart at the end of next week, Friday at the earliest, I guess. That would mean those cars are ready to be collected in the last week of December, which has only four days. And since the tax benefits only apply to cars that received their license plate in 2020, you can imagine it's quite important those cars arrive in time.
I am sure Tesla are aware of the importance of delivering to you before the year end. It's very much in their interest to deliver in Q4 too - not only for the quarterly results but for the 2020 annual results too.
If GLOVIS SUN comes to Europe I estimate she will arrive around 15 Dec, and for GLOVIS CAPTAIN 18 Dec, so plenty of time on the Tesla end-of-quarter delivery frenzy scale.
 

OttoR

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Mar 12, 2020
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Amsterdam
I am sure Tesla are aware of the importance of delivering to you before the year end. It's very much in their interest to deliver in Q4 too - not only for the quarterly results but for the 2020 annual results too.
If GLOVIS SUN comes to Europe I estimate she will arrive around 15 Dec, and for GLOVIS CAPTAIN 18 Dec, so plenty of time on the Tesla end-of-quarter delivery frenzy scale.

If it takes them another 7 days from Zeebrugge to Amsterdam with Christmas in between; there's only four workdays left in 2020. Not too much room for error / delay...
 

mac500

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Nov 8, 2020
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Belgium
Hi, found this thread a few days ago and having fun getting all this information. First time ordering a Tesla and awaiting delivery of my Model X somewhere in December in Belgium. But reading the updates here every day makes the waiting time more enjoyable. Thank you so much for doing this.

I still don't have a VIN number so I'm unable to know on what vessel my car is located. I just received information last week that a car is assigned to my account and it on its way to Belgium ...
 
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KristianM3P

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Nov 19, 2020
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Viken, Norway
Hi, found this thread a few days ago and having fun getting all this information. First time ordering a Tesla and awaiting delivery of my Model X somewhere in December in Belgium. But reading the updates here every day makes the waiting time more enjoyable. Thank you so much for doing this.

I still don't have a VIN number so I'm unable to know on what vessel my car is located. I just received information last week that a car is assigned to my account and it on its way to Belgium ...
Call Tesla, and talk to delivery. They have all the updates for you. VIN and such...
 

Jaap-Jan

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Nov 7, 2020
7
4
Overijssel, NL
Last year a whole shipload arrived at Koopmans on 20 Dec that had to be delivered by 31 Dec so I wouldn't worry too much.
Well, technically, the car is delivered when it's at the Koopman Terminal. It's where people go to pick up their cars.

So if the ship goes to Zeebrugge, the cars still need to be transported to the Koopman Terminal first.
 

jorgenask

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Oct 15, 2020
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Bergen, Norway
Yeah, with Bristol as the next destination for Opal Leader you are probably right.
I think we sold the skin before the bear was shot, as we say here in Norway :p
Hoping at the cars will make it to Drammen by the end of next week and maybe I get a delivery text. Seemes like it took about a week last time from Zeebrugge arrival.
 

lars667

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Oct 21, 2020
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Norway
I think we sold the skin before the bear was shot, as we say here in Norway :p
Hoping at the cars will make it to Drammen by the end of next week and maybe I get a delivery text. Seemes like it took about a week last time from Zeebrugge arrival.
But as you know, a bunch of TM3s are now visible on the Drammen webcams, probably arrived with the Prometheus Leader(!) So who knows what might appear at any given point. We didn't really expect there to be cars fromt he Antwerp on Prometheus, did we? (Although hoping is another matter.)
 

jorgenask

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Oct 15, 2020
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Bergen, Norway
But as you know, a bunch of TM3s are now visible on the Drammen webcams, probably arrived with the Prometheus Leader(!) So who knows what might appear at any given point. We didn't really expect there to be cars fromt he Antwerp on Prometheus, did we? (Although hoping is another matter.)

Never know, never know. All I know is that two different tesla-contacts has told me my car was on the second boat (Triton Ace).
So I have to wait a bit more probably :rolleyes:
 

lars667

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Oct 21, 2020
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Norway
It looks a bit like the cars are shipped piecemeal amongst other brand's cars, depending on how much space/capacity is on the feeder/distribution ships? So there might still be a number of cars in the Zeebrugge port? And possibly trains in addition to this?
 

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