As part of the move to the US, I had a load of stuff shipped to my new flat in San Diego. The shipping company have said it won’t arrive for another couple of weeks, which is fair enough I suppose. In the crazy modern world it’s funny to have to wait 5 weeks to receive something. It’s like the old mail-order caveat, “Please allow 28 days for delivery”. Can’t they just email me it or something?
I was curious as to the route the 3.5 cubic metres of my stuff would take. The guys who packed it all up and took it away didn’t know. According to the shipping company’s online tracking page, my stuff is on the container ship APL Egypt.
According to this unsecured Excel spreadsheet of ship information, the APL Egypt was built in 2000, and registered in Monrovia in Liberia. The ship is classified as ‘Panamax‘, which means it has the maximum dimensions that will fit through the Panama Canal. Therefore it’s reasonable to assume that after leaving Felixstowe, the ship heads through the Canal, and then travels up the coast to Los Angeles. And according to this ship tracking map page, it looks like that’s what will happen. I’ll be watching.
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fires up Google Earth, scans many miles of empty sea, realises he’s being a bit stupid
That ship tracking thing is pretty nice, though.
It would be if it was updated more regularly. The ship arrived in Los
Angeles yesterday, but the tracker only shows the position from 8 July.
I don’t know how it works, maybe it relies on the ship sending a ping.
New ship locations available! It’s now heading off east.
There’s a gap in the track from before it went through the Panama Canal,
to after it left Los Angeles. I’m told my stuff is in customs in LA. Due this week.
[…] I was helping Cassie clear out some stuff, including loads of old papers, and we found the paperwork for when she had her belongings shipped from London to Las Vegas via New York. I don’t know how much unlikely this is, or whether it is a perfectly reasonable coincidence, but her stuff was shipped London-New York in June 2005 on the exact same ship that carried mine London-Los Angeles in June 2008. […]