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kakimoto33 Rising Star

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We find that most ships take around 12-14 days roughly, with the occasional one going up to 16-17 days but not usually any longer ... if you tell us the name of the ship and your destination port then I can give you a more exact date?

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Paradizzle Grand Master

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Your car won’t necessarily get on the first ship your agent says, other larger clients always have priority. There are many problems which may affect the service, berth congestion in Japan and Australia can sometimes cause delays (although both Japanese & Australian ports are pretty good). Big ports in developed countries have 'windows' in which each vessel is given a certain time to arrive by and they have 'guaranteed' reserved birthing space. If ships miss their 'window' to berth at a port they get placed to the back of the cue. There are various other random delays that can cause significant delay also. If the vessel calls into smaller countries along the way, these are usually the places where delays occur. But on a route from Japan to Australia you shouldn’t really encounter many problems and vessels tend to stick to the schedule most the time. I'm ship planner at ANL container lines and deal with delays everyday (mostly from ships visiting smaller pacific islands and sub-standard stevedoring activities that cause a major pain in the ass.)

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recently a mate just imported a ae111 sprinter.

took 2 months.

plus customs charged him extra money to go over it in a quarantine procedure. which was a 'random' thing

that was an extra 3wks

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Lil_Bobby_260 Mentor

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well the car got on the boat he said it would.

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Very happy with mark hocking, BTW. i have about 200 pictures of everthing - the car inside and out, it being driven to the boat, it being drien ON the boat, it sitting in the park space on the boat, it being tied down, all the shit being hidden (log books, flares, timer, speed meter etc).

Ship docks at brisbane 15th march, left japan today (27th feb) so really thats about 2 1/2 weeks or so. Decent!

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