Timwinner

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As above I have a question about shipping, I have been told that twice a year the BIG ships from Japan, China etc come into UK ports to drop off all the cheap import stuff.
My question is what are the two windows they use to dock? I think it might be April and October but I am after confirmation.

Thanks in advance
Tim.

Simon 69

If you speak to the large shipping companies, then theyll confirm that ships sail from Japan every month or thereabouts (for the larger lines).

Simon

Aaron1978

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Your not a Pirate are you

Simon 69

Unfortunately youve been tipped the wink by someone who didnt know what theyre talking about. Even at the height of the importing boom I didnt have to wait for more than four weeks for space on a RoRo from Japan.

Scooby Soon!

I have containers coming in every month with Evergreen, normally the shipping lines use a "feeder" ship from a smaller port and that feeder arrives at a bigger port such as singapore where all the containers off of the smaller ships are put on the bigger ship.

Evergreen run a weeky service that arrives every Sunday this same ship stops at all the main ports in europe:

you can check the arrivals here for thamesport:

Thamesport Vessel Schedule

but felixstowe will be much busier.

RoRo (roll on roll off) wont be carrying much "booty" apart from cars all the good stuffs on the container ships

Simon 69

With this being a car forum Id presumed that 'imports' related to cars..... If thats not the case then my comments/experience arent going to be relevant.

Timwinner

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Thats great, I just really needed to know about the traffic flow of the large importer ships. Its nothing dodgy, just me and a few somalian friends wanted to know

paulr

Its more than twice a year. Its constant.

j4ckos mate

the ships are coming in all of the time, full of junk for our wives to buy, and go out full(ish) of our exports.

i work in the airfreight office of a big seafreight company

yoza

Jackosmate said....." i work in the airfreight office of a big seafreight company."

Im not the sharpest tool in the box, but that one has stumped me..