New smarts enroute to Baltimore port!

[sisyphus]

According to the smart tracking expert on the Canadian club smart forum:

"One hundred and ninety five US market smart fortwos are en route to Baltimore Maryland and will be discharged on December 23. Woo-hoo!

68 are cabriolets and 128 are coupés."

:spots

[kwagar]

That's a start-----is a wonderful thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SMART]

I'm going to go ahead and agree differently. I believe there are a total of 800 vehicles in route! My guess is that about 10 per dealership are on the way with maybe as many as 50 consumer cars are on the boat.

But who knows...

[Old smart]

In the marine shipping business, shippers with a periodic through-put usually pre-book space in standard “blocks� so that the various interests (including M-B, MINI, BMW, etc.) can be continuously coordinated. In the case of PCTCs the block will be in the form of X-number of square meters of deck space. They pay for that full deck allocation and will try to fill it, with no broken stowage. If 195 or 200 cars represents smart’s block load for a voyage, within a few sailings it will become evident what the monthly delivery rate is, and from that, what the monthly factory production is. And from that, what the yearly number will be. If it turns out that there are 2,000 cars per month being delivered, spread over ten or a dozen voyages, that argues a 2,000/month production and 24,000/year.

[mensaparts]

the cars are already there

[lhoboy]

Originally Posted by mensaparts

the cars are already there

May I ask the source of this information?

[sisyphus]

Certainly not the cars due to arrive 12-23, as the Canadian site also lists specific POs and VINs.
Perhaps an earlier shipment?

[gamernotwatcher]

US models made it for the Washington DC event, would it not be evident that a shipment is here already. Secondly, that the Dec 23rd shipment will be customer cars. (Think back how many weeks did it take for 1173 to finish confirming? X350) 195 cars will make it to 1/10(guesstimate) of the first day of order

[Old smart]

Remember that there are about a dozen Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Bremerhaven/Zeebrugge-to-Baltimore arrivals per month. Most are Wallenius Lines PCTCs, but some are RO/ROs chartered from Maersk and ACL.

[spdickey]

Originally Posted by lhoboy

May I ask the source of this information?

http://clubsmartcar.com/index.php?showtopic=12590