A GTS Chronicles RETROSPECTIVE: A little perspective

[lukesward]

Continuing my retrospective look into my journey towards Porsche ownership.

A little perspective (February 17, 2022 - 12 months ago)

"Some cars are just so satisfying that waxing poetic does them no justice."

Porsche transport problems!

Thankfully the news is good in that the 22 crew members of the car carrier Felicity Ace are safe. She's on fire and drifting in the Atlantic. But the crew was all rescued without injury.

So now my thoughts can turn to the idea that this will possibly introduce further delays into our dream. I mean the ship is loaded with - rumour has it - about 1200 Porsches. Now, not many of those will be 718s so that’s good. But the 718 is built on the 911 line, so if there were many new 911s that were needing to be remade…well…we’d get the shaft.

Not clear yet just what the downstream effects are, but I can definitely say I’m glad our actual built cars are not on board that ship. Now THAT would suck. Especially after having been at this since Summer 2020!!

~ Luke

[911R]

Luke,
It is my understanding that the ship was to land in Jacksonville, FL The cars were for the SE market.

I was told locally that the factory quickly adjusted factory production for the lost cars.

[blueline]

Luke,
It is my understanding that the ship was to land in Jacksonville, FL The cars were for the SE market.

I was told locally that the factory quickly adjusted factory production for the lost cars.

Felicity Ace had four scheduled U.S ports of call on that voyage beginning with 1,582 cars to be offloaded at the Davisville port in Rhode Island. It's the typical RoRo pattern from Emden - stop at a northeast U.S port, unload partially, continuing to move south, unloading at ports along the way, possibly New Jersey, Baltimore, Florida, Georgia, Texas among others.