Cars afloat!

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Thu 27 Mar 2008 15:26
Cars afloat! - billy25
Just as a point of interest,
there are a lot of cars in British waters today, as well as on our roads!
At this very moment, there are no less than 13 dedicated vehicle carrier ships around our coastline and in our ports, and this doesn?t include anything on ferries or general cargo boats.
In-bound there are 2 going to Sheerness, 2 to Southampton, 1 to Newcastle, 1 in Whitehaven, and 1 in a place called ?Gwalchmai? which I presume is wales! So it seems that the distribution area is fairly uniform over England.
Outbound, there is 1 going to each of these destinations: Santander, Zeebrugge, Bremmerhaven, Hamburg, Vigo, and Rotterdam.

Anybody like to speculate which makes are coming in and which makes are shipping out? Or is that too broad a question?

Billy

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Thu 27 Mar 2008 16:35
Cars afloat! - welshlad
i know for a fact on friday there is a ship inbound to portbury on friday filled to the brim with mitsuibushi's 240 to be exact
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Thu 27 Mar 2008 17:36
Cars afloat! - billy25
Thats the "Acacia Ace" she's heading up the channel to Bristol now! ;-)

Billy
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Thu 27 Mar 2008 18:16
Cars afloat! - Mapmaker
Attractive.

www.shipfoto.co.uk/images/2003%20Photos/Acacia-Ace...g
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Thu 27 Mar 2008 19:31
Cars afloat! - Big Bad Dave
I just wet myself looking at that photo Mapmaker
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Thu 27 Mar 2008 20:08
Cars afloat! - welshlad
forget my new car i want the boat its coming on now LOL
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Thu 27 Mar 2008 21:21
Cars afloat! - Pugugly
I was going to say - let's hope there's at least one wit Mitsubishi tin tops.
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Fri 28 Mar 2008 03:44
Cars afloat! - billy25
Ahh! ?? but at what point do these vehicles (built abroad ) and shipped here, become classed as a ?British? car? - is it at point of sale from a dealer or (very) first registration with DVLA ? ? If I were to import (for e.g ) an American Pontiac Firebird brand spanking -new from the states, (privately) would it be classed as an ?import? upon registration here or British? Like its European shipped ? in counter-parts.

Billy

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Fri 28 Mar 2008 08:49
Cars afloat! - geoffken
Newcastle / South Shields will be Nissan mainly inbound X trail, Private imports from Japan Maxima for Russia ( crazy when you consider Russia and Japan are less than 60 miles apart in Siberia )possibly Subaru imports also.
Export Micra Quashai etc.
North shields will be VAG group Audi Seat etc.

Surprised only 1 ship for Newcastle as port unloads approx 10 vessels a week

Not sure what comes into Whitehaven as place is a time warp.
Maybe Model T's
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Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:24
Cars afloat! - Cymrogwyllt
There is a Gwalchmai in Anglesey but the ship would have a few problems getting there. it's on the old A5 near the middle of the island.

maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
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Fri 28 Mar 2008 14:11
Cars afloat! - PST
I don't know what's in the ships but if you happen to be out there then this might be useful:

tinyurl.com/3aoca4 (link to Amazon)
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