My vehicle arrived at Emden on 11.06 (after a slight delay) currently awaiting allocation to a boat. Does anyone know how long this process takes? Or if theres any ships heading there over the weekend, the car will be going to Grimsby port. No idea where to start with stuff like this...

Thanks

I'd think that your Skoda sales person will be your point of contact, he might/should be able to find out which car carrier that individual car is scheduled to be loaded onto, and a rough idea of its sailing time and route.

Then, it is off to a website like "marine movements" or one with a similar name, to track the movement of that car carrier.

This used to be a "jolly" game to play when you knew that your ordered car was "on its way" - my experience, unfortunately was not too good, my wife's 2015 VW Polo was coming in from South Africa as that was where VW were building RHD Polos at that time, I spent a lot of time looking for the "big" car carriers that looked like they were heading for this area of Europe - and failed, I had been looking for it going round the Horn - wrong it must have gone via the Suez canal! It was near Holland by the time I caught up with it, a complete failure on my part - then eventually spotted it in our dealer's car compound but no one knew anything about it as our sales person was holiday - oh well, at least I tried!

Thank you.... 🙂

Nobody can seem to tell me yet, just in a queue awaiting shipping. I fell in the same hole last night looking on ship finder and did find a boat that hit Emden this morning and is due to arrive in Grimsby this weekend. I doubt ill be that lucky....but we can only hope 🙏🤞

I've played this game as well. Then when you think it's not in the UK suddenly you get a phone call saying it'll arrive at the dealer tomorrow.

I must admit now that I give the supplying dealer some latitude (colour, trim level, accessories) so that they can try to find the car I want "from stock". Worked a treat last time, had the car in 2-3 weeks.

The ships vary in frequency, can be nothing to UK for 3weeks, could be one tomorrow. Tends to be 3 sizes of ship, very large (goes to US etc), medium (includes UK), smaller (Scandinavia).

Just keep looking on vessel finder etc. Not uncommon for ship to load once, and have multiple disports, Sheerness, Grimsby, Tyne. So don't just look for one going to Grimsby as next port.