Your bags ship separately — your flight and your shipment are independent.
Your belongings travel as freight, independently of you, so a delay or change to your passenger flight has no effect on your shipment — it’s already on its own journey. That’s one of the advantages of shipping ahead rather than checking bags on your flight.
If the shipment itself is affected by a freight or weather delay, we’ll keep you informed and tell you the revised timing. Because sea (and sometimes air) transit can shift for reasons outside anyone’s control, we build a sensible window into our guidance and stay in touch — you’ll always be able to reach a real person for an update.