Completed shipment replay
Valencia → Sydney
Australia's biosecurity rules end more shipments than storms do. This consignment was pre-checked in Spain against timber and cleanliness rules before the doors were closed.
- Service
- Sea · FCL with biosecurity
- Transit time
- 34–42 days
- Frequency
- Fortnightly sailing
- Reference
- CV-26-2276AU-AU
Live tracking replay
Collected
Castellón, Spain · Day 0 · 07:50
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Collected
Day 0 · 07:50Castellón, Spain
Pallets inspected for bark, soil and insect residue before loading — the step most shippers skip.
Gate-in
Day 0 · 16:40Port of Valencia
Fumigation certificate issued and attached to the booking file.
Sailed
Day 1 · 04:05Valencia
Loaded onto the fortnightly Oceania service via Suez.
Indian Ocean crossing
Day 21 · 09:00Southern route
Weather routing added a day; the dashboard ETA updated without anyone having to ask.
Discharged
Day 37 · 07:30Port Botany, Sydney
Container presented for DAFF inspection with certification already on file.
Quarantine released
Day 38 · 12:15Sydney branch
Cleared first-pass with no wash-and-re-present order — the pre-check paid for itself.
Delivered & signed
Day 39 · 10:45Silverwater, NSW
Delivered to the distributor's warehouse, all pallets accepted undamaged.
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 — tiles and stoneware, 22,100 kg
Sealed at Valencia, Spain and released only at Port Botany, Australia. 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.