Ducati1199

I can confirm that longshore men are NOT working Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon and we're waiting to see if they stay out any longer right now.

TRAKCAR

Plus backlog is 3 weeks delay so far.
Other west coast ports are no longer an alternative as they can't keep up taking up the slack.

Best bet to get a container into the USA is via the east coast or Houston and go by rail or truck.

MayorAdamWest

Again, please cite your source.

TRAKCAR

The steamship line telling us out containers won't be off the ships till early March. Or you could just watch CNN

MayorAdamWest

At least you didn't ask me to watch Fox News

There are articles like this one
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...ys-6076197.php

But all of the articles seem to be about unloading shipping containers. Given dealers haven't been complaining, and my dealer said he hasn't noticed a change, I wonder if car transports are treated different.

TRAKCAR

Yes, could be different. Not sure first ship in first ship out?

Mech33

Here's a more up-to-date tracking website than I originally posted: http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/...date:lastknown

Looks like Equuleus Leader is preparing to head into the Panama Canal!

OCturbo

Nice! A little head of schedule.

Does anyone know the average time it takes from arrival in destination port to departure on the truck from the port?

Mech33

Ship is crossing the canal now.

thxbuff2001

anybody had an idea how many days from the panama canal to the san diego port?

ATXGT3

Looking forward to all of the incomings in the next few weeks

OCturbo

I read on this forum that it's 8 days from exit of Panama Canal to SD.

Addendum: vessel finder has arrival at SD port at 0600 Feb 25 (Pacific standard time)

GreenLantern

+1

Was just about to post that its ETA to San Diego is 2/25.

OCturbo

Port of San Diego web site also shows Equuleus Leader is scheduled to arrive 0500 2/25. The only other ship scheduled to arrive that day is a banana ship, so hopefully they can unload our cars on that day.

Ducati1199

Don't want to put a "downer" on the situation but remember that's arrival date. The vessel will then require an available berth, pilot on board and tugs plus the longshore men at work to tie the vessel up. They all need to be available for the ship to move from the arrival anchorages. The problem as I see it is there's a large log jam of vessels waiting to get in so there could be delays even if the vessel arrives on time.