{"id":24010,"date":"2026-01-16T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24010"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:33:33","slug":"very-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/very-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Very interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I received more information from China concerning the shipment of my mini excavator which I find very interesting. The main information on the link that I was provided is shown below. I’ve blanked out what may or may not be sensitive information (this is new to me) such as the bill of lading number, container reference etc and it shows that my excavator (packed in a wooden crate) in a 40 foot long container was loaded onto a ship named CMA CGM Cedrus in Qingdao in 13 January and is scheduled to arrive in Marseille\/Fos-sur-Mer on 03 March.<\/p>\n

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The manifest shows that there are 406 packages in the container, which I think goes some way to explaining why my delivery is taking so long as the Chinese manufacturer has presumably had to wait until he could fill a 40 foot container with goods destined just for Europe. Further delving has revealed that there is a host of web sites out there showing global details of ships, shipping, routes, shipments and tons of other stuff which boggles the mind in terms of the details and volume of information that’s available. I’ve just selected a tiny bit about my shipment, starting with the route that CMA CGM Cedrus is going to be taking.<\/p>\n

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The ship is being constantly tracked by satellite as is every other type of maritime traffic from what I can see. The map that I downloaded interestingly shows that CMA CGM Cedrus is on its way to Shanghai, not from Qingdao but from Buson in South Korea to where it must have sailed after taking on goods in Qingdao. The satellite map shows what a huge volume of seaborne traffic there is in the area and when you click on each little arrow it tells you if it’s a cargo ship, a fishing vessel, an auxiliary etc, even a private vessel. <\/p>\n

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I was astounded when I first saw the satellite view and could hardly believe the global picture when I zoomed out, more so I think than when I first viewed Flightradar24 that shows global aviation traffic. There’s also lots of information available on the CMA CGM Cedrus itself. It was built in 2024 in China and is registered in Valetta, Malta. Apparently it runs on LPG rather than heavy fuel oil which is new to me. <\/p>\n

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There are lots of photographs of the ship one of which I show below when it was in Singapore.<\/p>\n

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This is all very new to me and I’ve found it very interesting. I’ll now be following the progress of my mini excavator in real time as it wends its way to Marseille and in the meantime I’ll be figuring out how to get it cleared through customs. It looks to me as although it’ll be unloaded in Fos-sur-Mer (the main international port in Marseille) it’ll enter the EU at Valencia, but I have no idea if this is relevant or not. I’ll have to find out \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I received more information from China concerning the shipment of my mini excavator which I find very interesting. The main information on the link that I was provided is shown below. I’ve blanked out what may or may not be sensitive information (this is new to me) such as the bill of lading … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24010"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24022,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions\/24022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}