The Big Move

[PaulSwan]

The waiting game is somewhat tortuous. It's been anchored off the coast of Panama for the last few days. The tracking has now been updated to say it's been offloaded from the MSC Ans on the Atlantic side and will be leaving on the Octavia on the Pacific side in two days time. Slipped two days to ETA dockside June 7th now. Don't quite understand why it doesn't say how it's getting accross Panama.

Ugh, waking up in cold sweats that it's going to arrive upside down or I'll open it up and find a pile of broken wood and glass 

[level42]

That first ship it was on definitly doesn't fit through the Panama canal so it is probably loaded on a smaller ship that crosses the channel OR it went on this:
http://www.panarail.com/home.html

[PaulSwan]

Yes, it lines up with that rail line - Cristobal to Balboa.
Thanks for info,
Paul

[Alpha1]

Man those games sure are travelling!!

[PaulSwan]

Tracking has been updated again to say it's on the MSC Ans and that the MSC Ans is now anchored on the pacific side, so it must have gone through the canal in the end. Dockside date is now back to 5th June. Must have changed their minds. Odd.

[level42]

Ah....I found the Octavia (http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=538090149) but not the MSC Ans ? You sure about that name ?

[PaulSwan]

MSC Ans out of range at sea on it's way to Lima, Peru. (so it did pass through the canal in the end) and it offloaded at Balboa. Should be on the Octavia now.

[PaulSwan]

Hi,

Final delivery was Saturday June 16th
 
The conatiner set off late, the driver had no GPS, plus some maneuvering was required to get the container down the drive that resulted in a bit later start than expected. Cut the customs seal, opened the doors, and everything was right where I left it! Nothing damaged at all - perfect! Such a relief to see it all again.

Due to side chains on the lift gate of the rental, we loaded the rental and then pulled away from the container so they could than be unloaded off the rental to ground level. A two-step process but it worked well.

My son took a few pictures:

The truck we rented (only for the lift gate):


The container arrives and backs down to back into my place:


The container in position:


Barry, Matt and Gary receiving on the rental truck


Unloading


The Crew: "The Driver", Godot, Chris, Ron, Gary, Barry & Matt:


The finished job, completed in under 2 hours


Chris took more photos and put up an extensive slide show:
http://bit.ly/L5ahGH

Now to unwrap and make a start in them

Regards,

Paul.

[ckong]

Congralations Paul, the waiting is over.  And I´m glad for you that you have no damage at all. Now unpack those games so you can play them. Do you have a separate room for them planned?

[Muerto]

Great to see it made it there safe and sound!

Do you have a separate room for them planned?

You're looking at the separate room: the ENTIRE garage!!!!

[DarthNuno]

Congratulation to the crew!

Great pictures 

 

[Etienne MacGyver]

Thats great that there was no damage!

and a nice crew to help you unloading, not bad 

[gyruss]

You must be very happy, would love to see some more pictures when everything is unpacked. 

[Belike]

I'm really happy Paul, I was a bit worried about these gems.

[level42]

 

Happy they made the long journey safely !

I see a nice Zacc cockpit

What did the driver think of what was in the container ?