All aboard the Tarifa July 2007

Anyone else going to the West Coast on the Tarifa? It's currently scheduled to arrive and depart Southampton on 7/16/2007. Here's the information available so far:

Booking Number: GBSOU540907
Vessel: Tarifa
Voyage: ED728-TFA
Mini Cargo : 269

Tarifa Arrival Dates
Bremerhaven, Germany : 07/11/2007
Zeebrugge, Belgium : 07/15/2007
Southampton, United Kingdom : 07/16/2007
Manzanillo, Panama : 07/27/2007
Port Hueneme, CA, U.S.A. : 08/06/2007
Tacoma,WA, USA : 08/10/2007
Yokohama, Japan : 08/21/2007


Owner: Tarifa Maritime Limited
Capacity car/trucks: 6,400/?
Built year: 2007
Flag: BAH
Call sign : C6VT6

Tarifa Info :http://www.ww-group.com/services/shi.../MVTarifa.aspx



Not much info on the Tarifa as it has only been in service for a couple of months, and Wallenius has not listed it on the fleet list page as of now.

UPDATE: Tarifa Docked Berth 40 at @ 04:10, departing 07/16 @ 19:30.

 

yup, mine is on booked for that ship as well!

 

Congrats on getting your booking info! If you are interested we've posted links to all of the tracking maps for AISfree.AISlive.com and I think we've also posted the links for the Panama Canal web cams (if they aren't all there I'll post them this weekend) in the Isolde thread.If yo

 

My MCS was released to the carrier this morning so it'll likely be traveling on this ship. So... hello!

 

Thanks, have the info and will post progress once it shows up some place.

For the last week or so it has not been found any where on the water, either it sank or stuck in port some place that does not provide web updates.

 

Nice choice on colors, that was one one on my list of color choices.

 

Tarifa docked at berth 40 at 04:10, a few hours ahead of the scheduled time.

 

At the far end of the dock on left you can see the Tarifa, it is moored
starboard side to dock. Red/white with the black stack aft.

 

Onboard at 03:13 !
Departure time was changed to 20:00 and another 79 cars added to the orignal booking list.

 

Only 52 Mini's are still on the dock, loading will be finished shortly. Two are makred as " on hold" for some reason and the departure time has chaged again....now showing 19:30.

 

Hopefully you'll be lucky and they will turn on their weather reporting system so you can track it on http://www.sailwx.info/ not all ships turn the sytem on. If they don't you're stuck waiting until it is near land is being reported on AIS.

Good Luck!

 

Mine is one of the 52!!!! Sure hope they can squeeze her in somewhere!!!! The suspence is awful!!!

 

Where are you getting your info????? :impatient

 

Info can be found on the WW pages:
http://schedule.2wglobal.com/AppTracking/cargoTrack.do

Tack by "Booking" and enter booking number GBSOU540907

If you were booked on the Tarifa welcome aboard, all made it aboard and
Tarifa departed on schedule.

 

Nope...my VIN wasn't on there. Guess she's on the next ship......I'm not getting any news on WW or anywhere else except she's at the port and has been for days.

 

Is your VDC Port Hueneme (it serves the West Coast)? If it isn't, it wouldn't have been on the Tarifa.

 

Does not look like the Tarifa will have the weather reporting activated, so no tracking till near Panama. No records in the data base for past sailings either, so it would appear Tarifa does not report weather.

 

Out of the 269 Mini's onboard am I the only one that is on NAM ?

From travel time estimation, Tarifa should Arrive at Manzanillo, Panama Friday 07/27 @ 01:00.

 

nah, i'm on that ship too, I just wait for your reports of where the ship is! HAHA

 

Okay....was just checking, as it seems like I'm just talking to myself.

 

Some information that may save time for anyone following the Tarifa trek across the Atlantic.
The WW schedule shows arrivial at Manzanillo, Panama on 07/27, but it is misleading as in if you search google maps for Manzanillo Panama it will show an island in the Pacific Ocean.
Actually the port is in Colon Panama, and the facility is " Manzanillo International Terminal" which is just a few miles from the Atlantic entrance to the canal.

MIT:
http://www2.mitpan.com/en/TheCompany...2/Default.aspx

 

Until I read this thread, I thought I was alone in my all-consuming attempts to track my Mini. I am comforted to find I am not alone.

I was hoping I was wrong--that I just hadn't found the Tarifa's weather information and hadn't figured out how to track the ship. Apparently, the ship just isn't trackable. It's torture. We await images from Panama.

I guess I can focus on selling my current car while I wait. Anyone in Northern CA need a boring Honda Civic in good shape? It'd make a great first car for your high school or college student...no turbo to get a kid in trouble.

 

Good to see another shipmate, so far this has been a very quite cruise as few are posting. You are corrrect, Tarifa is not sending weather reports so no way of tracking her for now.

Below is the link for AISLive, and should see her show up Thursday afternoon/evening I'm estimating. ETA for the Manzanillo dock is Friday 01:00, I'll be checking for most of the day and will post as soon as she is sighted.

http://aisfree.aislive.com/Influx.as...tic%20Approach

 

For any that are wondering why Tarifa and other ships are not trackable, the link below has the details. The sailwx sight uses VOS data (Voluntary Observing Ship) from ships equiped with the hardware/software that have joined the Voluntary At Sea Weather Reporting.
The hardware/software is installed & maintained free of charge to the ship owners, but it appears many of the WW ships do not take part in the VOS project.

http://vos.noaa.gov/

 

Tharkun--

Thanks for providing such detailed info.

I was wondering...if you are in Tracy, our Minis may be traveling together all the way to the dealer. Where does a person from Tracy order a Mini? Niello? Only catch: I'm told my Mini may be held up after docking because it will get its racing stripes prior to getting on the Sacramento-bound truck.