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Ozzie8 wroteNext step will be the bmw guide app accepting your vin. Based on my car, it’s when the car hits status 160. And VIN decoders start accepting the VIN at the same time.Good news my car is being built this week and reached status 153 (final assembly) two days ago. So hopefully all finished this week. Estimated delivery date as moved out one week.
Also, demo stock will be arriving at dealerships in the next 2 - 3 weeks.
NielsH looking forward to a test drive to settle some of the anxiety. I'm not so sure our vehicles will be on the same vessel - for your sake I hope note given yours was built a few weeks before mine. The worst stage is car in storage waiting for shipment, assuming we don't have more port bottlenecks and Wollongong.
Ozzie8 wroteWhat port is used for AUS cars? Is it Bremerhaven?Dropped my wife's car off for a service and managed to ask one of the sales team to do a check (my sales manager away) and we have reached status 193! That means the car is at the port of departure. The car has really zipped through the production and despatch to port process. Hopefully vessel details soon.
Onto shipping. I'm reliably informed the car will be departing from the port of Bremerhaven. With an expected delivery of 38/09/26 or week commencing 14/09/26, BMW will need a minimum of 3 weeks from arrival to delivery, meaning the car needs to arrive no later than 17/08/26. Given I don't know the name of the vessel today, we can eliminate May departures, meaning June will be the expected shipping month.
There are two carriers which transport most of the BMW's from Bremerhaven, being Wallenius Wilhelmsen and Hoegh Autoliners. Below are the schedules for both for the relevant weeks ahead:
So what is my analysis? It is normal for vehicles to sit at the port for at least two weeks and my car needs to arrive by the week of 17 August.
- eliminate Traviata, Talisman & Starlight, likely to depart before car is allocated a ship
- eliminate London, likely arrival a little too late
- this leaves Don Quijote, Torrens, Tortugas & Shanghai
To add further to the detective work (speculation
), both Torrens & Tortugas depart on the same day 21/06/2026, indicating there may be a potential 'double' shipment to accommodate all of the new iX3's (wild speculation 
). It is worth noting that while both vessels leave on the same day, Torrens arrives at Port Kembla on 17/08/2026 and Tortugas on the 08/08/2026. Why is this so? Well Torrens goes around the world from Bremerhaven to the US, through the Panama Canal and then onto New Zealand and then Australia. Tortugas has the more direct route going from Bremerhaven via South Africa onto Australia.Given
NielsH is a week ahead in production with a scheduled delivery date also a week ahead of me, I'm going to further predict (rediculous speculation 
) that NielsH iX3 is on the Tortugas and mine is on the Torrens.For
x4power assuming your expected delivery is still the week of 24 August, your potential vessels could be Talisman arriving on 11/08/2026 or London arriving on 14/08/2026. Fremantle port operations are faster than Port Kembla.
Ozzie8 , that is an impressive display of deduction and reasoning. Let’s see how it all plays out.
NielsH wroteI did pretty much the same thing tracking my i4. I still have my notes on the ships I'd determined...obsessive? Not at allthat is an impressive display of deduction and reasoning. Let’s see how it all plays out.
“Your vehicle is being loaded onto a vessel today. Please see the details below.
The system has not yet updated with the vessel name”
From yesterday.
