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General information!
Below is a step-by-step tutorial so you can track the progress of your Mustangs voyage to down under.
From the Port of Baltimore to Australia, your Mustang will be transported on a Wallenius Wilhelmsen RORO (Roll On Roll Off) vessel.
Ask your Ford dealer which vessel your Mustang will be on.
Note, this logistics information may not be known for some weeks after your build, so be patient.
Once you do have the name of the vessel, go to https://www.walleniuswilhelmsen.com/schedules
• In the DEPART field, start typing Baltimore
Select Baltimore, Md
• In the ARRIVE field, start typing Brisbane.
Select Brisbane
Irrespective of your closest capital city, Brisbane is the first port of call to Australia.
• Click the down pointing arrow to bring up the calendar.
Select a nominal date, say the 1st of the previous month.
(I suspect my vehicle is leaving in July, so I will go back to June)
• Click Find Schedule
In the following example June 1, 2024 was selected, and the following 2 month schedule is provided.
• Select a date to reveal the name of the vessel traveling on that date.
In this example we select a departure date of July 1, 2024:
For this sail, the vessels name is Morning Lisa.
If this is not your vessel, try other departure dates until you find a match.
• Click on the link beneath the vessels name.
The vessel's schedule is now displayed with estimated arrival dates.
I will make the assumption vehicles bound for SA and TAS are offloaded at Melbourne.
• These schedules change regularly
• Dates can shift, new stops added, and some trips are cancelled altogether
Now, we have a tentative schedule, we can track near real-time progress of this vessel with a choice of two websites, Marine Traffic and ShipInfo.
Marine Traffic looks more sophisticated, but only displays limited past track and it's "real-time" reporting can lag behind ShipInfo.
ShipInfo, despite it's rather primitive looking display, can also display a past track of 14 days, and you don't need to register an account for casual use.
After using both, I prefer to use ShipInfo, so scroll down for that, but to get Marine Traffic out of the way first.
Marine Traffic
You may need to register and create an account.
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• Click on Vessels, irrespective of whether you create an account (not essential)
• Start typing the name of vessel in, and select the vessel that is a Vehicle Carrier.
(There may be many vessels with the same name.)
If you've created an account, you can add this vessel to your own fleet.
• Give your fleet a name, and Create Fleet
• Close the annoying ad (top right X) if one appears
• Click on the vessels name
• Click on Past Track
• Close the annoying ad (top right X) if one appears
Bingo!
We see the past track and it's last reported position.
You can run the history timeline, if that floats your boat!
ShipInfo.net
MarineTraffic only offer 24 hours of past track, whereas ShipInfo offers 14 days worth of past track.
Using ShipInfo is easy, simply type the name of the vessel in the Ship name box:
No need to press Enter, just wait a second or two for the website to do a lookup of all the vessels with that name.
Once that appears, now you can click on the Vehicles Carrier choice:
After a few seconds your vessel is displayed on the map, with several days worth of past track:
You can zoom in/out, shift the map around.
Clicking on "Track of the vessel in the last 14 days" will display 14 days of past track, which is significantly more than what MarineTraffic offers.
Going back 14 days in this example, takes the vessel all the way back to Baltimore.
If you're only interested in the here and now, then either website will indicate the last known position of your vessel.
Now you know where your Mustang is during this painfully long voyage!
Below is a step-by-step tutorial so you can track the progress of your Mustangs voyage to down under.
From the Port of Baltimore to Australia, your Mustang will be transported on a Wallenius Wilhelmsen RORO (Roll On Roll Off) vessel.
Ask your Ford dealer which vessel your Mustang will be on.
Note, this logistics information may not be known for some weeks after your build, so be patient.
Once you do have the name of the vessel, go to https://www.walleniuswilhelmsen.com/schedules
• In the DEPART field, start typing Baltimore
Select Baltimore, Md
• In the ARRIVE field, start typing Brisbane.
Select Brisbane
Irrespective of your closest capital city, Brisbane is the first port of call to Australia.
• Click the down pointing arrow to bring up the calendar.
Select a nominal date, say the 1st of the previous month.
(I suspect my vehicle is leaving in July, so I will go back to June)
• Click Find Schedule
In the following example June 1, 2024 was selected, and the following 2 month schedule is provided.
• Select a date to reveal the name of the vessel traveling on that date.
In this example we select a departure date of July 1, 2024:
For this sail, the vessels name is Morning Lisa.
If this is not your vessel, try other departure dates until you find a match.
• Click on the link beneath the vessels name.
The vessel's schedule is now displayed with estimated arrival dates.
I will make the assumption vehicles bound for SA and TAS are offloaded at Melbourne.
• These schedules change regularly
• Dates can shift, new stops added, and some trips are cancelled altogether
Now, we have a tentative schedule, we can track near real-time progress of this vessel with a choice of two websites, Marine Traffic and ShipInfo.
Marine Traffic looks more sophisticated, but only displays limited past track and it's "real-time" reporting can lag behind ShipInfo.
ShipInfo, despite it's rather primitive looking display, can also display a past track of 14 days, and you don't need to register an account for casual use.
After using both, I prefer to use ShipInfo, so scroll down for that, but to get Marine Traffic out of the way first.
Marine Traffic
You may need to register and create an account.
• Click on Vessels, irrespective of whether you create an account (not essential)
• Start typing the name of vessel in, and select the vessel that is a Vehicle Carrier.
(There may be many vessels with the same name.)
If you've created an account, you can add this vessel to your own fleet.
• Give your fleet a name, and Create Fleet
• Close the annoying ad (top right X) if one appears
• Click on the vessels name
• Click on Past Track
• Close the annoying ad (top right X) if one appears
Bingo!
We see the past track and it's last reported position.
You can run the history timeline, if that floats your boat!
ShipInfo.net
MarineTraffic only offer 24 hours of past track, whereas ShipInfo offers 14 days worth of past track.
Using ShipInfo is easy, simply type the name of the vessel in the Ship name box:
No need to press Enter, just wait a second or two for the website to do a lookup of all the vessels with that name.
Once that appears, now you can click on the Vehicles Carrier choice:
After a few seconds your vessel is displayed on the map, with several days worth of past track:
You can zoom in/out, shift the map around.
Clicking on "Track of the vessel in the last 14 days" will display 14 days of past track, which is significantly more than what MarineTraffic offers.
Going back 14 days in this example, takes the vessel all the way back to Baltimore.
If you're only interested in the here and now, then either website will indicate the last known position of your vessel.
Now you know where your Mustang is during this painfully long voyage!
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