Just checked the WW again and this time it shows my car was loaded on 6/11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be in CA port on 7/2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not the unluckiest guy on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm buying a lotto ticket.


But MINIUSA.com is still showing it as Awaiting transport.

 

Congrats, r56mini!

I had a feeling there had to be a few more of us on the MADAME BUTTERFLY than it looked like at first.

 

I just found the same thing out yesterday after thinking I had missed the boat!!! I felt like the happiest guy on earth when I found out my Mini would be just a few miles from me on July 2!

 

Well, after knowing that my wife's MCS was completed a week ago and sent to the port to be loaded on a ship, it hasn't shown up anywhere on the WW site, and ASK-MINI and the OL still show it as "Awaiting Transport". We know it was finished very early on the 10th, and should have been on a ship, but we have no clue as to whether it's on a K-Line ship or a WW ship.

It may not have even made it on a ship, which would suck since it was there all of last week.

I've used the cargo tracking on the WW site, but her VIN never shows up, tells us that it doesn't recognize it. Has anyone else that would have theirs going to Charleston been able to find what the Booking Number for the Freedom is? Did your's make it on the Freedom?

 

MINIGolfer,
I think the FREEDOM booking number was listed in the production week 24 thread.

 

I just checked which WW ships recently left or are scheduled and it seems your car would have to be on FREEDOM. The INTEGRITY left just before your car made it to the port but there was plenty of time for it to get onto the FREEDOM. Unless something very unusual happened, it must be on the FREEDOM and it's just not showing up yet. Have you asked your MA if they know?

 

Thanks for the info on the Booking number. Just used it and hers still isn' showing up, but it only shows 154 cars loaded, so I'm sure they have some more to add to the list.

Unfortunately, the MA that we had when we ordered the MINI is no longer at the dealership, and we have been handed over to another one (which neither of us like very well). He asked my wife if I could send him the links on how to track a MINI, since he wasn't sure how to do it (and he's been an MA for several yeas now).

I'm hoping that sometime tomorrow the list will have been updated and will show more than 154 cars loaded on Freedom.

What I did notice was that if you click on a particular VIN in the listing, it will show you what day a car was "Booked", which I found rather odd since some of them showed May 2nd as the day they were books. Some showed the 13th or 14th of June.

Some of the ones that showed they were Booked on May 2nd, weren't received at the terminal until something like the 14th or 15th of June.

I'm sure that list has got to get bigger.

I know when I ordered mine and tracked it back on 05, the ship it came over on had something like 800 cars on it, so unless the Freedom picked up a bunch of other cargo before getting to Southamption, it's got to have more on it than what is being shown.

Oh well, we'll keep plugging along and hope that it shows up soon.

 

Hey MiniGolfer, same here. My car was done and waiting for a ship since the 10th, since only 154 cars show as booked on the Freedom I am assuming I made it. Fingers crossed etc..

 

Hey, they've ipdated the car count on the Freedom this morning! I just checked and now there are 153 cars!!! One must have fallen off into the harbor. Still no sign or my car.

 

While I believe they frown on it, if you call 201.307.1300 anyway and ask very very nicely, they might just check their internal records to see if your VIN is listed as being on the Freedom.

My car was completed mid week 24. So if I'm to believe what I'm reading and hearing, it made it on to the Freedom.

 

You may have made it onto the INTEGRITY. Here is the booking number. GBSOU532064, and the bill of lading number. GB619734.

 

MINIGolfer1, we definitely have the same MA. Hehe. Are you with Jarrod now? He's at least responding to my emails.

I haven't seen my car on the Freedom yet either, which makes me hope that it's on the KLine Emden which left on Sunday.

The Maersk Wind leaves on the 22nd and makes a B-Line for Charleston, arriving on July 1, so hopefully we can hitch a ride on that one if we got extremely unlucky on the Freedom/Emden!

 

Yes, unfortunately we now have Jarrod as the MA. It's not something that we wre overly excited about. We actually contemplated cancelling the order and doing something different, but we didn't, since this is the car that my wife really wants.

Our new MA wasn't even aware of how to track MINIs, and he's been doing it for several years. When my wife went to have a sit down with him this past week, he asked her to have me send him all the links of how to track a MINI, so I'm not holding out much hope that he will be of any use.

Not sure what is going on with the shipping, but based on what ASK-MINI told my wife this morning, her car was completed on 6/9, and arrived at the port on 6/12, and has just been sitting there. So, if it didn't make it on the Freedom, and doesn't make it on the Emden, then it's going to be sitting on the docks for over a week.

The way things are going, we aren't going to have any time to get some of the things done that we need to be before we head to MITMs in her MINI, might end up having to take mine.

 

Well, there is still the Maersk Wind leaving on the 22nd. It skips the E/NE coast and gets in to Charleston on July 1. Hopefully we just made the Emden and don't have a way to track it

 

The MAERSK WIND is somewhere around the west coast of Central America now. Do you mean the MAERSK WAVE?

 

What, yall are not taking both!???!

 

Nah, figured that we would put the break-in miles in on hers. Will also give her a chance to learn more about her car during the drive.

 

Well, we have determined that 1 of several things has happened, none of them are the greatest of outcomes.

1. Her MINI is still sitting on the dock waiting for a ship to get on
2. Something has happened to several of them for some reason and nobody is saying.
3. Her MINI is on the Emden, with no way to track it
4. Her MINI decided to make a stop at the pub and decided not to leave


As of around 5:00 PM CST today, her MA doesn't have any more information than what we already knew. His system still says "Awaiting Transport"

The MINI has been at the docks since the morning of the 12th, so we aren't sure what the holdup is. The WW site still doesn't list her VIN anywhere, and if it did make the Emden, there isn't any way to track it, as it doesn't appear that it reports weather conditions along the way.

What a bummer!

 

Sitting on the dock for a week is certainly long time. My car missed a ship by one day and waited for six more days for the next one. I hope your car is already on the FREEDOM and the tracking is just not up to date.

But even if it's not on the FREEDOM... you still have hope. The MAERSK WAVE departs Southampton this Friday, June 22nd and it arrives in Charleston on July 1st, only a day after the FREEDOM! Good luck getting onto a ship soon!

 

I, too can find no sign of my car. It has been at the dock since 6/12, or earlier. I sent an email to my MA to check. If she can't find anything, I'm calling the W&W number.

 

Hehe, I'm with you at this point MINIGolfer. I figure that since there are at least three of them out there lost they must be on the K-line on the way. Although a group of MINI's at the pub and missin' the boat is certainly not out of the question. I would be really surprised if they are all still sitting on the dock or if something bad happened (let's hope not!).
I will be buggin' my MA today and will hopefully be able to get more info.

 

I think it's option #3. I'm in the same situation--car at dock since 6/12 or 6/13. Seems like a lot of us from Texas, OK, etc. (cities going thru Charleston port) with cars that arrived at the dock last week can't locate our vehicles.

It makes sense to put cars bound for Charleston on the Emden instead of the Freedom. The Emden takes a more direct route and arrives one day earlier. Of course, it would be nice to get confirmation of that. I'm trying to remain patient. At worst I think our MINI's will arrive in Charleston by July 1.

 

Well, it's very possible that it made it on the Emden, which is making a straight line to Charleston.

I'm beginning to think that it didn't make it on the Freedom, since it sailed on Saturday, and their system still only shows 153 cars onboard.

We'll just have to see whether all the systems sync up in the next couple of days and somehow it magically says that it is "En Route".

I'm beginning to get a little skeptical though.

 

MINIGolfer1, Have faith. If it's any consolation check out this Port of Charleston web site. Scroll down to ships arriving at Union Pier (UP):

Vessel Arrival date
3 EMDEN
CAROLINA SHIPPING AND 584 6/29/2007 Discharge: VEH
Load:
3 FREEDOM
WALLENIUS AND WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN 623 6/30/2007 Discharge: VEH
Load:
4 MAERSK WAVE
WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN LINES AND 557 7/1/2007 Discharge: VEHICLES
Load:

 

I called my MA and the ASk Mini Number and they told me that my Mini is still in UK?? And the WW site tells me that my VIN made it to NEW York on the Integrity --- Has anyone else had this experience? VIN but not Ol and MA sa its still on the dock? Don't know where mine is now