on the Florida Highway

[CommaD]

Just found out my car is on a ship called the "Florida Highway". Anybody else have or had their car on this ship?
Does anyone know what port it stops first in U.S.?
Only info I found online is that it has a destination of Baltimore and the ETA is March 5! That seems like way to long to cross the ocean.
I am taking delivery in Tampa, FL by the way.
If anybody has any info it would be helpful. The wait is killing me.

Thanks!

[FDfranklin]

Sounds like a funky name for a ship...

Grats on your new car though, what part of Tampa?

[jpd]

http://www.2wglobal.com/www/wep/ is the website for shipping company. Departing Bremerhaven?

[CommaD]

Originally Posted by jpd

http://www.2wglobal.com/www/wep/ is the website for shipping company. Departing Bremerhaven?

I don't think it is that shipping company like most BMW's. They don't have that ship listed on their fleet. I think it is a Japanese shipping company.
Thanks though.

[CommaD]

Originally Posted by FDfranklin

Sounds like a funky name for a ship...

Grats on your new car though, what part of Tampa?

Yes, a funky name, but somehow appropriate considering it's heading to me in FL

I am near Wesley Chapel area of Tampa.

[Diego@Lutzperformance]

Congrats on your new car!

[jpd]

Unless you know something specific BMW does not use a Japanese shipping company here is the most recent update regarding shipping and tracking BMW. BMW ships with several cargo lines and carriers, depending on the destination.
• Wallenius&Wilhelmsen (parent company for several ship lines listed below)
• EUKOR - a division of Wallenius Lines
• UECC - another division of Wallenius Lines
• A.P. Möller - yet another division and ship line owned or operated by Wallenius Lines
• Mark 1 Shipping – owned or operated by Wallenius Lines
• K-LINE (Usually BMW West Coast deliveries only, but sometimes ships to NY/NJ as NYK-Line) K-Line is not a W&W company
• ARC - Often operated by, or under the direction of Wallenius Lines

Your car will be unloaded at the Port of Brunswick or Charleston

[kemamo]

I have a Z4 35i on the same ship. Seems like a long trip to me too. Maybe they're stopping at some exotic island for a leave on the way.

[CommaD]

Originally Posted by jpd

Unless you know something specific BMW does not use a Japanese shipping company here is the most recent update regarding shipping and tracking BMW. BMW ships with several cargo lines and carriers, depending on the destination.
• Wallenius&Wilhelmsen (parent company for several ship lines listed below)
• EUKOR - a division of Wallenius Lines
• UECC - another division of Wallenius Lines
• A.P. Möller - yet another division and ship line owned or operated by Wallenius Lines
• Mark 1 Shipping – owned or operated by Wallenius Lines
• K-LINE (Usually BMW West Coast deliveries only, but sometimes ships to NY/NJ as NYK-Line) K-Line is not a W&W company
• ARC - Often operated by, or under the direction of Wallenius Lines

Your car will be unloaded at the Port of Brunswick or Charleston

I have looked into this further and the Florida Highway is a part of the K-LINE/Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Line group (noted in your post)... which IS actually from a Japanese company.
http://www.kline.co.jp/

[jpd]

FLORIDA HIGHWAY
22 A
150 ton
5.00m
26-Jan Bremerhaven
28-Jan Southhampton
7-Feb Baltimore
9-Feb Brunswick
10-Feb Charleston

this is the sailing schedule for Florida Highway -the arrival of March 5 in US Baltimore never really made much sense

[CommaD]

Originally Posted by jpd

FLORIDA HIGHWAY
22 A
150 ton
5.00m
26-Jan Bremerhaven
28-Jan Southhampton
7-Feb Baltimore
9-Feb Brunswick
10-Feb Charleston

this is the sailing schedule for Florida Highway -the arrival of March 5 in US Baltimore never really made much sense

Thank you very much for that info! Yeah, it seemed strange to me too and was hoping it was wrong, it still shows that on marinetraffic.com website.
Thanks again. It helps ease my mind.
Where did you get that info? I thought I looked everywhere.

[jpd]

http://www.kline.com/ here is the shipping company link. I downloaded the pdf schedule

[kemamo]

Originally Posted by jpd

http://www.kline.com/ here is the shipping company link. I downloaded the pdf schedule

Ditto the thanks!

[Hexley]

My 1 was on the K-Line's Aegean Highway, it made the crossing in about 2.5 weeks.

[Greyfox135]

Looks like my 135i is on Florida Highway as well. I lost tracking of her some where in the Celtic Sea. Most likely crossing the Atlantic now. K line schedule shows she is due on the east coast some time around Feb. 7th but who knows for sure.

[jpd]

Look at my earlier post for arrival times in the states.