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      05-21-2015, 07:14 AM   #1
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New Car Shipment & Delivery 'route' - UK

Anybody know the stages in the journey after build is complete in Germany and the car has been 'released to Carrier'

When I bought a 530iT in 2001, it arrived in Immingham and then trucked to Thorne (Doncaster) for final fettling before being trucked to the Dealership in Surrey for PDI & Handover ...

Been told recently that the route is now via Southampton, and then somewhere in the South which does the PDI before trucking to a Hampshire Dealer .... I know that BMW have moved from Bracknell to Farnborough, Hants - is this a new facility for Distribution, as well as their new HQ ?

Also - what are people's experiences of the time taken from end-of-Production, thru European Delivery to departure Port, arrival in UK and eventually reaching the Dealership ?

Our US cousins have a detailed thread on this, but UK info seems sparse - a Twiiter enquiry to @BMW-UK produced a succinct answer:-

" ... vehicle logistics and the point of PDI can vary depending on the location of the BMW Centre ..."

Cheers in anticipation of some insight !
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This link is from the BMW UK site; it gives Farnborough as the head office, so it must be fairly recent as they only moved there in December 2014.

http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/footer/pu...s/aboutus.html

I believe the USA-built product is or was imported through Southampton, but as far as I know everything else still comes into Immingham and is moved to Thorne for UK distribution.
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All UK distribution is from Thorne.
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Thanks both - yes, seen everything on the bmw.co.uk site.

Twas the Dealership Salesman who told me:-

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Been told recently that the route is now via Southampton, and then somewhere in the South which does the PDI before trucking to a Hampshire Dealer ....
Coupled with BMW's terse response* on Twitter, leads me to believe they use both Immingham & Southampton and then (as part of their 'Carbon-saving initiative') chose the next stage in logistics to save shunting Product the length of the Country .... the comment about PDI not being done by the Dealership is interesting ?

* Twitter response
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" ... vehicle logistics and the point of PDI can vary depending on the location of the BMW Centre ..."
Reinforced by this Oct 2012 aricle from:-

http://www.automotivesupplychain.org...henus-Cuxport/

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BMW began exporting its European-produced cars from Cuxport to the UK port of Immingham in 2004, using DFDS and sailing five times a week in each direction. Today, the cars are carried by two shipping lines. UECC to Southampton and Flota Suardiaz to Immingham. The change was entirely due to the process of competitive tender, a case of one set of contracts maturing and the need to renegotiate. The main driver was BMW’s strategy to ship into various ports of entry.

“Previously, all European-produced cars would be moved via Cuxport to Immingham but we decided, with the maturity of these contracts, to look at an alternative strategy of moving the vehicles further in mileage terms by sea than by road,” says Mark Worthington, General Manager of BMW’s Thorne vehicle processing centre in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. “We now bring the cars into the country at a point which is much closer to their ultimate destination. We have always brought US products – our X series vehicles are produced in the States – into Southampton but now we also use the port for short sea shipping.

We are sending a strong sustainability message by doing as much as we can by sea to minimise road mileage.
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So - can anyone quote their own (recent) experiences in the duration from End of Production date to Handover in the Dealership ?
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So - can anyone quote their own (recent) experiences in the duration from End of Production date to Handover in the Dealership ?
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