From what I have picked up over the eternity that I have been waiting for the darn car it was ’usually’ when the ship went through the Suez and that was about 2 weeks before docking in Southampton … which corresponds with what someone on this forum has said previously, i.e. around the 7th September, so would expect a flurry of activity at that time. But then, just recently, it seems that VINs have been allocated shortly after leaving Shanghai, which is about 4 weeks sailing, and if that is the case we would expect to hear this week.