Anyone else on the Lyra Leader?

I dropped my car off in Munich on August 17 and the Lyra Leader set sail on Sept. 1 or 2 according to the European Delivery person at BMWNA. She said it would arrive Sept. 23 but according to the San Diego Marine Information System http://www.sdmis.org/schedule/ it is due to arrive at Port Hueneme at 6am on Sept. 25.

I haven't had any luck tracking it on NYK's site or otherwise so I don't know where it is at sea. Anyone know anything else about this and if your car is on this ship?

Apparently, the Lyra Leader is a new ship that was only commissioned in June and has a new electronically controlled engine that helps reduce NOx emissions by about 15% compared with a regular engine http://www.nykline.co.jp/english/news/2005/0627/

I was told it should take 7 to 10 days from there to being pushed through the VPC and arriving at my dealer in San Jose, CA.

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Apparently, the Lyra Leader is a new ship that was only commissioned in June and has a new electronically controlled engine

Uh-oh. I hope it's not made by BMW.

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I believe 6 AM on the 25th is the arrival information for San Diego. LL should hit PH early on the 26th. The seven to ten day delivery window after that sounds about right.

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I too have a vehicle on the Lyra Leader (not a BMW though). I was told my vehicle would be off loaded in Long Beach on September 22nd. I would not be surprised if the information you were told for Port Hueneme is correct with a stop there on the 23rd. I believe the date on the San Diego Port website for September 25th is when the Lyra Leader arrives and departs from San Diego's port. For some reason only San Diego posts on the internet their schedules. It does seem odd though that a ship the size of the Lyra Leader would have three ports of call so close to each other, but since it is a car carrier it is probably just as easy to roll on and roll off from close ports. I believe the Lyra Leader first landed in New York and then had a port of call in Norfolk, Virginia. Assuming the Lyra is still on its intended schedule, I would assume the Lyra Leader should be safetly in the Panama Canal as we speak and out of harms way from the massive Category 5 hurricane now spinning in the shipping lanes of the Atlantic and gulf areas. Any updates you might have been told would be of interest as I have wondered if last week's hurricane might have caused some delays.

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Northcar,

Thanks for the info. Either way we should both be close to the ship docking if it's on schedule. I'll post as soon as I hear my car has been moved off the ship and would appreciate it if you would do the same. I've continued trying to track the Lyra Leader on a few sites, including the Panama Canal site, but haven't found anything new. I'm curious how you figured out that the ship had docked at NYC and Norfolk. These last 2 or 3 weeks of the wait are going to be the hardest!

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