Completed shipment replay
Felixstowe → Hamburg
A short-sea container run across the North Sea. This replay follows a real-shape consignment from the collection bay in Suffolk to a signed delivery in the Hamburg suburbs.
- Service
- Sea · FCL & LCL
- Transit time
- 3–5 days
- Frequency
- Three sailings a week
- Reference
- CV-26-4417QK-DE
Live tracking replay
Collected
Ipswich, UK · Day 0 · 07:40
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journey complete
Collected
Day 0 · 07:40Ipswich, UK
Pickup crew loaded and sealed the container at the shipper's dock. Seal photographed against the booking.
Gate-in at terminal
Day 0 · 15:12Port of Felixstowe
Container weighed, VGM filed and stacked in the export yard awaiting the Tuesday sailing.
Loaded aboard
Day 1 · 02:05Berth 8, Felixstowe
Lifted onto the vessel. Bay, row and tier recorded so the box can be located at any point at sea.
At sea
Day 1 · 19:30North Sea
Vessel position pushed into the tracking dashboard every six hours with a rolling ETA.
Discharged
Day 3 · 06:48Hamburg Container Terminal
Seal checked against the original photograph before the box left the quay. No discrepancy.
Customs released
Day 3 · 11:20Hamburg
Broker cleared the entry the same morning using paperwork pre-lodged at booking.
Delivered & signed
Day 4 · 09:02Wandsbek, Hamburg
Unloaded at the consignee's warehouse. Signature and photographs attached to the record.
What the customer saw
Nothing on this page was reconstructed afterwards. Each milestone above was written to the consignment record at the moment it happened, by the operator holding the scanner. The customer watched the same timeline you are watching now, from their own tracking dashboard, on the day.
Cargo on this run
1 x 40ft container — retail stock, 18,400 kg
Sealed at Felixstowe, United Kingdom and released only at Hamburg, Germany. Every handover in between carried a timestamp, a location and an operator ID, so the chain of custody reads end to end without a single gap.
Watched from the desk
A coordinator holds this corridor and checks it against plan twice a day. When the schedule slips, the ETA in your dashboard changes before you have to ask — and if the slip matters, you get a call rather than a silent update.
Closed out properly
Delivery is not the last step. Proof of delivery, seal photographs and the final cost breakdown are filed against the reference within the hour, so the shipment can be audited months later without anyone hunting for paperwork.