12/24/2022 0 Comments Ships waiting to port mapqueueing list from the Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region. Chart: American Shipper based on data from Marine Exchange of Southern CaliforniaĮlsewhere on the West Coast, 10 ships were waiting for berths in Oakland, according to Friday 7 a.m. The Los Angeles/Long Beach ship count has been hovering around its current level since late May, and is still up slightly year on year. 9, but it’s still the second-largest ship queue in North America. This backlog is down sharply from a high of 109 ships on Jan. queuing list from the Marine Exchange of Southern California, 24 container ships were waiting for berths in Los Angeles/Long Beach, with a total capacity of 208,903 TEUs (average size: 8,704 TEUs). West Coast queuesĪccording to the Friday 7 a.m. Maps: MarineTrafficĮlsewhere on the East and Gulf coasts, two ships were waiting off Virginia, and another two off New Orleans. According to Hapag-Lloyd, utilization at Houston’s Barbours Cut terminal was at 86%, and “terminals continue to experience equipment shortages for chassis due to longer street dwells.” Ship queues Friday, 8 a.m., off Houston (left) and New York/New Jersey (right). On the Gulf Coast, 20 ships were waiting off Houston with aggregate capacity of 121,196 TEUs (average size: 6,060 TEUs). Hapag-Lloyd said waiting time for berths in New York/New Jersey was “running upwards of 20 days depending on the terminal.” Yard utilization was 92% at Maher, 75% at GCT Bayonne and 72% at APM Terminals, added Hapag-Lloyd. On Friday morning, there were 20 vessels waiting with an aggregate capacity of 180,908 TEUs (average size: 9,045 TEUs). The second-largest East Coast queue is off New York/New Jersey. The carrier put yard utilization in Savannah at 89%. Waiting time for a berth in Savannah is now 10-12 days, according to an operational update this week by Hapag-Lloyd. Blue line = cargoes bound for Savannah, green line = cargoes bound for all U.S. Index of bookings volumes by scheduled departure date. The ships had a total capacity of 343,085 TEUs (average ship size: 9,350 TEUs).Ī proprietary FreightWaves SONAR index of bookings data shows that growth in inbound volumes to Savannah versus the index date (January 2019) is significantly higher than the national average. Chart: Project44 East/Gulf Coast queuesĪs of Friday morning, MarineTraffic data showed 36 container vessels offshore of Tybee Island, Georgia, awaiting berths in Savannah. Project44 attributed the shift to importer fears of West Coast port labor disruptions. East Coast-bound capacity is now on par with West Coast-bound capacity, which has dropped almost 40% since its January peak. It found that June capacity heading to the East Coast was up 83% year on year and up 177% compared to June 2020. Project44 tracks monthly arriving TEU capacity to West Coast versus East Coast ports. How much cargo value is in all those boxes? On a purely back-of-the-envelope basis, assuming 90% utilization (some estimates are higher) and an average cargo value per import TEU of $43,899 (the average value of cargo imported by Los Angeles in 2020, likely conservative given inflation), the estimated value of cargo waiting offshore on Friday exceeded $40 billion. and British Columbia ports on Friday had a combined capacity of 1,037,164 twenty-foot equivalent units. Map: MarineTrafficĬontainer ships waiting off U.S. Container ship pileup offshore of Savannah, Friday 8 a.m. Savannah, Georgia, now has the largest ship queue in North America. The ship queue off Los Angeles/Long Beach garnered the most headlines over the past year, yet the congestion epicenter has shifted: As of Friday, only 36% of waiting ships were off West Coast ports, with 64% off the East and Gulf Coast ports. That’s down 16% from 150 waiting ships in January, when West Coast congestion peaked, but up 36% from 92 ships a month ago. There were 125 container ships waiting off North American ports on Friday morning, according to an analysis of ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic and queue numbers from California. Along all three coasts combined, the number of waiting container vessels remains exceptionally high. Greg Miller Follow on TwitterFriday, July 8, 2022 3 minutes readĪnchorages continue to fill with waiting container ships off East and Gulf Coast ports, where vessel queues have now far outgrown those off the West Coast. 4% of waiting ships off East and Gulf coasts, just 36% off West Coast
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