Anyone near Bremerhaven have a boat I could borrow?
10-28-2010 | 05:10 PM
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Hey Rudy......I also got on the Patriot. I've haven't found anybody else from the forums on it yet, besides you. Last I checked she was making her way through the Biscay Bay, northwest of Spain, heading directly to Baltimore. Looks like she'll land a day ahead of schedule on the 5th according to the itinerary. I too will port at Baltimore. Hopefully our cars pass through VPC quick.
Either way, it won't be too long now!
10-28-2010 | 05:54 PM
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Welcome to the forums! Usually, they prioritize sold cars (they're called "Priority One") so they should move through the VPC fairly quickly. The one thing I'm not sure of is whether they'll be prepped in Baltimore or whether they'll be sent down to Charleston's VPC. From what I understand, there is no BMW VPC in Baltimore (just one in NJ and one in SC.) Cars do, however, get processed in Baltimore in a non-BMW owned facility. I've heard (but am not certain that) BMW uses the VPC that Mercedes-Benz has there but I also think that the shipper, Wallenius Wilhelmsen, has a facility there for processing/prepping cars that come off their ships.
Either way, it won't be too long now!
Either way, it won't be too long now!
10-28-2010 | 06:41 PM
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BMW is apparently outsourcing this at many ports. My car entered via Brunswick, GA earlier this month...
10-29-2010 | 02:29 AM
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10-29-2010 | 03:22 AM
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Perhaps but Brunswick and Charleston are 140 miles apart. Why incur the additional transportation costs between the two? Either they process the car in Brunswick or I would think they's ship it into Charleston. Brunswick has large facilities for handling cars and I suspect BMW uses MB or some other third party at the port of Brunswick... But I don't know that for a fact!
10-29-2010 | 08:56 AM
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Perhaps but Brunswick and Charleston are 140 miles apart. Why incur the additional transportation costs between the two? Either they process the car in Brunswick or I would think they's ship it into Charleston. Brunswick has large facilities for handling cars and I suspect BMW uses MB or some other third party at the port of Brunswick... But I don't know that for a fact!
10-29-2010 | 11:16 AM
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10-29-2010 | 01:26 PM
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confirmed...on the Porgy 
too bad I can't track her right now tho
too bad I can't track her right now tho
