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I only got the container number from the shippers, but doing an Internet search I found what I think is the container ship...I managed to track it and it,s just off the UK heading to Antwerp...as there are no ships due in the Felixstowe no the 12th which is the due arrival date of my car I am now lost...can 't see how it can get from Antwerp to Felixstowe...just have to wait a couple more days I suppose...I just a little worried about an Italian car being so near salt for so long...they may just sweep it up from the container floor and post it to me
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Originally posted by Pishadeperro:
I only got the container number from the shippers, but doing an Internet search I found what I think is the container ship...I managed to track it and it,s just off the UK heading to Antwerp...as there are no ships due in the Felixstowe no the 12th which is the due arrival date of my car I am now lost...can 't see how it can get from Antwerp to Felixstowe...just have to wait a couple more days I suppose...I just a little worried about an Italian car being so near salt for so long...they may just sweep it up from the container floor and post it to me

Your shipper can tell you exactly what the estimate is from the arrive of the vessel, you need this also for your shipping Insurance
Yesterday I pick up my car from the harbor.
The vessel was arived April 3 as sceduled ,but because it was easter it has some delay whit unloading the containers into the warehouse.
Simon
I wouldn't worry too much about it going via Antwerp, a lot of these ships have multiple drop off points.

I imported a car from South Africa in 2013 to be shipped Durban to Southampton and thats what it said on the manifest. I got a fright when I also tracked the ship and it had docked already in Rotterdam then was off to Hamburg and never coming to Southampton.

A couple of concerned calls from me to the clearing agent followed. However a few days later the car was in customs in Southampton ready for me to collect. Don't ask me how.

If it says Felixstowe on the manifest I'm sure the car will be there shortly.
Decades ago, it was found that loading a Pantera on an open trailer backward sometimes resulted in lots of body damage. The jiggling and bouncing (trailers usually have no shocks) tends to release the decklid latch- which aren't the most secure anyway. Then the air blast wraps the deck lid over the top, in one case breaking the windshield as well as warping the top structure where the hinges attach. You got lucky, or drove slow! Sure- the tongue weight is better with mid-engine cars loaded backward but risking body damage isn't worth the tow convenience IMHO.
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Originally posted by Husker:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pishadeperro:
Have I been hacked? Who says it was loaded backwards? It wasn't...it went on forwards and we rolled it off backwards after freeing the clutch[/QUOTE

In your picture the car is loaded with the rear end nearest the hitch i.e. "backwards".
Hello Husker; I believe the confusion lays in that "2" individuals Pishadeperro & Oriol both seemingly had the Panteras arrive in close time proximities, as Oriol's Pantera was the car loaded "backwards"...Mark

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