Thanks for that!

 

Guess this confirms i'm on the MANON. anyone else?

LOADED ON VESSEL SOUTHAMPTON 09/04/2006
RECEIVED AT TERMINAL SOUTHAMPTON 07/04/2006
BOOKEDSOUTHAMPTON 21/03/2006

 

egg,

Congrats...you made a ship after all! Your ship is leaving the Port of Southampton in 5 minutes, look towards GB and wave it out of the port! Which port is your MINI being discharged at, NY, Brunswick, Charleston or Baltimore?

 

Suzannne, thanks for the update! It's going to the Hamptons, so i'm assuming NY but i'm not sure if they all go to the VDC in SC or not. BTW, i remember looking at your photos a while back as I'd wanted PW/PW for the loooongest time! I must have collected every single PW/PW photo. such a classic color. I agonized over the color combinations and finally decided for DS/S since that's a combination that's particular to the U.S. I believe. I mean, the mini looks great in all colors...

 

That's funny because my original intent was to order a PW/B MC and it turned out that the one I bought in July was already new on the lot, so no gruelling ordering process and I figured what the hell, it didn't have the black roof but I grew to love it all the same. I still love it but I'm ready for another neutral color, royal grey baby!

 

The nice mini people said it should be done today and will be at the port by the weeks end. Now I have to begin trolling to start seeing what ships will be departing Wed and onward for the east coast!! I am so excited. We are planning a weekend trip out to the Hamptons to go pick it up. I am going to start looking at beach front hotels

 

My car was done with production on the 5th. Why do I feel like I'm the only one in here who isn't booked for or on a ship to the US?

 

I am having the same problem. My car has been finished since the 6th.
When I checked it said this:
RECEIVED AT TERMINAL 06/04/2006 00:00
BOOKED 05/04/2006 23:59

but there has been no update. I am starting to get a little nervous that my car is going to take much longer than expected.

 

at least that is why the askmini people said... he said when the boat's full, it leaves... so maybe you're just waiting to leave. And he also told me that my little baby is there now so maybe she will help fill up your ship!!

 

Once it's on the boat, your status will say "Loaded on Vessel". My car was loaded on, and less than 30 minutes later, the boat left. I don't think they have a shortage of cars.

 

Mine still says... "awaiting a shipping vessel." Where is that darn vessel? My car has been waiting too long - he's growing impatient!

 

If that status is from the Owner's Lounge, or ASK-MINI, it could be wrong. The WW website is pretty much real-time when it comes to shipping status.

 

Woo hoo! According to the Owner's Lounge:

"Estimated Delivery Date: 4/20/2006"

Of course, it's still got a couple of weeks of travel by truck to get to me in Cali, but still -- not too shabby.

 

Congrats! That's not far away at all!!!

 

The only thing I know is that whatever boat my mini gets on will travel to Port Charleston, SC from South Hampton. It looks like the next ship out of SH is Integrity so I HOPE it makes it on that ship.

The WW website has nothing for me- still says that the VIN number doesn't exist when trying to track it so it hasn't been booked. Boo!! Well, hey, at least it'll be beautiful outside by the time I get it - I guess that's a plus!

 

Well the Orion Leader has come and gone from Southampton and there are several things that could be "sticky" about this situation:

• The Southampton Vessel Movements site listed its destination at Las Palmas (Spain!), contrary to the NYK representative to insisted it was bound for the US West Coast - Port Hueneme
• I will have to wait for my MA to provide me with the bill of lading to get info about my MCS possibly being ON the ship at all
• My MA was so 'green' he didn't know what a bill of lading was when I asked him - hopefully he does his homework
• If I'm on the boat, no way to track it except for calling NYK every other day.

Again, this is the universe telling me to just focus on the last 6 weeks of the spring semester and "fuhget about it." Bah, and seemingly all of my work up to this point is for naught...

 

Suzanne,

I thought the ship name was Orion Leader.....you mentioned Orion Diamond in your last post. Same ship?!!? There sure isn't much info to go on from the yo-yos at NYK. Their web-site is useless, there ships don't show up on the tracking site. Ugh.

 

According to the miniusa site.... now I just have to find a ship. any ideas of when the next east-coast bound ship is departing!! yippeeeeeeee

 

why do I not see this boat on the Southampton Shipping Movements list? We are on the Elektra.

 

Yes, I put the wrong name, thanks for alerting me to this!

 

The Elektra has already left Southampton...earlier this morning I believe...I viewed it on the radar leaving the port. Hopefully you were on it?

 

I saw it on the WW site that it had left. It is due in NY on the 21st. I am very excited. All of this happenned whilst I was asleep. I am so excited. this definitely means I will get my mini by the first weekend of May which is very important b/c I have to give up the clunker I am driving and so I was about to completely carless!!

 

I saw that integrity is leaving on the 14th to head for the east coast. I don't know if that helps. I'm hoping that's the ship I'll be on.

 

Suzanne, I read somewhere on these boards (can't remember if it was this thread or another support thread) that sometimes the ships go to Spain to pick up BMWs before heading to the US. That might put you at ease at least a little bit.

 

You have WAY too much time on your hands.