The distance between the Port of SF and Port of Zeebrugge is 10,684 nautical miles and currently one ship named the ‘Glovis Cosmos’ is headed from US SFO to BE ZEE with a Tesla vehicles shipment, the total days estimated days of the time at sea is 24 days (check status at marinetraffic.com).

According to ports.com, the distance between the Port of Philadelphia and Port of Zeebrugge is only 3,996 nautical miles and if a ship travels at the speed of 18 knots, the time to reach the destination will be 9.3 days — as we can see in the above map, it takes maximum two days to reach Philadelphia from the Tesla Fremont in California.

Adding max 10 days at sea and 2 days on the road, it will take around 12-15 days in getting the cars from the Fremont factory to Europe/UK as opposed to 24-30 days to deliver cars via the Port of San Francisco — this is a huge advantage of time Tesla will gain in their overseas deliveries, a smart move by the automaker to pump up delivery numbers for the Q2.

Tesla must be also be benefiting on the financial side by using this strategy, the shipping cost of 10,684 nm vs. 3,996 nm should also be reduced by at least 50% on the sea, including the car carrier costs the overall savings should still be considerable.

However, till the last reports, the Port of San Francisco also had thousands upon thousands of Tesla Model 3s waiting at the Pier 80 to roll on to vehicle transport vessels and we got some super nice aerial photos of the scene.