This thread is all about Asian Chorus, a lovely Ro-Ro carrier that is currently at the port of Southampton loading a MINI or two.

The vital stats:
Callsign: 3FWK7
IMO number: 9158604
Owner: Eukor Car Carriers, Inc.
Charter: Eukor
Operator: Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
Flag: Panama
Capacity: 6,400 cars
Length: 199.9 m
Beam: 32.3 m
Draft: 10.0 m

Known NAM members aboard:
Krim
Mirrim
spidrz06
proximal
Tweeckey
dwf137
Sgregg67
AlexM

The itinerary is as follows:
Voyage ED823-ASC
Bremerhaven, Germany: June 6-8
Zeebrugge, Belgium: June 6-10
Southampton, UK: June 11-12
New York, NY, USA: June 20
Manzanillo, Panama: June 25
Port Hueneme, CA, USA: July 3-4
Tacoma, WA, USA: July 7
Yokohama, Japan: July 18

Tracking the ship:
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Schedule Search - Search by voyage ED823-ASC
Vessel Tracker - Offers mapped location, delayed by 24 hours
Port of Southampton ship movements

Let's be each other's eyes and ears and post any news about the whereabouts of this ship and our MINIs. I'm particularly hoping we can get a shot of it going through the Panama Canal, courtesy of the canal webcams.

 

Asian Chorus is currently at Southampton. Per the shipping movements page on the Southampton VTS page (linked above), it is at location (dock?) 43. Here is the view from Google Maps, 43 is right where that large cargo ship is docked with its ramp deployed. And yes, those are MINIs in that lot, ready to go to their eager owners.



http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...06909&t=h&z=18

It is scheduled to leave port at 6:00 PM local time tomorrow!

 

oh good someone started the thread.. since i mod 2 other sites, i tend to not start threads anymore.

and a much better photo, the one i found was pre-white/blue Eukor livery. it was rusty white/red i think.

 

Aye aye Suh Cap'n Suh!!

 

Great links!!!! I'm so EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

 

ding ding OWG arriving!

 

Whoo Hooo!!!!

 

looks like south hamptons shipping movements page has delayed our 6pm departure till 7:15....

 

169 MINI's in my booking number. (GBSOU657832)

Does any one have a clue what the * after the VIN means?

 

uh oh..... if you click on the VINs with the *, the page it takes you to has the meaning, * means Cargo is in Waitlist Status

 

Probably waiting to load OWG's car. Looks like some folks bound for NY have joined us as well.

Asian Chorus is now showing up on the Southampton Live Radar, top left corner: http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/radcap.asp

 

another great link!

 

Still lying at pier. That it is showing up means that her AIS is squawking. As someone who operates a small craft around big ships, I can say AIS Good!

 

Happily I don't have one!

 

whew, good..... That is a relief.

 

Whew!! thanks for waiting, guys. I've had a whirlwind buying experience this time; ordered 5-25, built 6-11, on the boat 6-12. Much nicer than the first MINI, when I got to wait 6 months. Looking forward to a mid-July delivery now - 2 weeks sooner than expected

 

And that is just two hours, fifteen minutes away!

 

I'm giddy.

 

your lucky, you get off at the first stop!!! Even sooner delivery for you!

(glad it all worked out for you, especially since they tried to push back your build week)

 

Great links, thanks!

Looks like 8:45 departure.

 

Thanks. Getting a ship five days earlier more than made up for a little angst.

Looks like departure is delayed until 2045 BST, or another hour and a half.

 

found another tracker:

http://www.ais-live.co.uk/AIS%20Live...uthampton.html

 

Beauty!

 

As per the Voyage Detail on the Wallenius Wilhelmsen site:

Our ship has sailed!!



Last one on the deck, still wins! We still have our MINIs on the way!

 

I'm on board with you fine folks (and cars) as well!