However, there is no such vessel/voyage from New York to Santos, Brazil in the NYK sailing schedule. In fact, their web-site says this service has been discontinued.
The BBC site said it would take 3 weeks for the container to reach Santos, which is really too long of a transit, so my only guess is they are transhipping this container somewhere.
Here are the results from the NYK tracking site. If you want to look for yourself, you must input the container number - all letters and numbers with no spaces.
Container Search Results
Container NYKU8210506 Container Size/Type 40'/DRY
Status As Of Event Location Mode
JAN-12-2009 11:43 Loaded on vessel at first port of load New York, NY, USA IWATO/017
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From searching, the AIS is/was showing "Savannah" (Georgia) as the next destination, so it could be working down the coast. The ship was renamed in 2004 from ''Eagle I'', which might also account for its missingness.
I found this article which suggests that the previously (dropped) service was a joint venture with Hapag-Lloyd. When the joint-venture service was dropped in 2008, NYK started it up again as their ANS "Atlantic North-South" service with a six-vessel, six-week rotation; so it should go past Santos, head further south and then call on the way back.
The shipping schedule for ANS reckons a route via New York, Savannah, Caucedo, Puerto Sacre, Navegantes, then Santos, which would give an ETA into Santos of 2009-02-08.
Thanks for your comments.
I finally found the eta which is Feb. 7th.
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