dirk said:
Knowing how many are produced by Hethel doesn't help me out much. Here are my questions in order:
1. How many have been delivered to end user customers in the US?
2. How many are inside the US landed but not delivered? This could be at the dock, in the consolidation location, getting prep'd, etc.
3. How many are on the water?
4. How many fit in one ship?
5. How many have been built by Hethel and are awaiting shipment?
You have to know the answer to all 5 questions before the 650 number means anything. Hypothetically if a ship only holds a few cars if 300 are sitting in England awaiting shipment that doesn't mean much to us in the US. I know we are all desperate for information, but knowing the total number of cars produced is very vague.
I don't have all the answers here... but what I do know is that all the cars that are built and ready are shipped every Monday, 3 per container. They are not holding cars. The ship's capacity is not the determining criteria.
Since ships go out every week, they take the production run, approx 50 cars each week.
Ships take a few weeks to cross the Altantic. An extra week for the Pacific. And those destined for Hawaii will be lost.

(sorry, just kidding, expect a couple more weeks).
They are charged by by the day for the storage of cars in the port facility so LCU is very interested in speeding up the process of cars getting to dealers as quickly as possible. They do have a limited amount of space at the distribution facilities. Please see the post with Jellybeans in the title for a pic of the inside of one.