FWIW, we ordered a moonstone gray AWD pro S gradient locked in mid-June and received an email that it was leaving the factory. Oddly enough, we were just messing around on the portal and noticed the status had changed to leaving the factory on 9/7 but didn't get the email until 2 days later on 9/9, so really not sure when the status even changed on the portal itself. Not sure what that all means but the optimist in me is hoping that it had already made its way onto a ship before we received the email, though probably not the case.
To give you an idea of how obsessed we've been with tracking it, we've called the dealer but they claim to have no more info than we do. So I started going through the GPS data for the ships that we believe VW uses. Of them I think the only likely candidates are the following:
Siem Confucius - left Emden on 9/3 (super optimistic of us)
Siem Cicero - left Emden on 9/10 (probably more realistic)
Bishu Highway - Arriving in Emden on 9/13 (a possibility)
Siem Aristotle - Arriving in Emden on 9/19 (also a possibility)
If I take the verbiage in the email at face value, which is the same text as you received, I would expect Confucius and Cicero to be the ships carrying my car. If I assume that it has simply left the factory but is sitting at port awaiting a ship, it'll probably be Bishu Highway or Siem Aristotle...All that said, it is what it is and I just have to wait it out.
Good luck to you all and thanks for sharing the info you have.
