At anchor
Below normalEast Coast ships at anchor
Container ships at anchor off East Coast ports, weekly, from the BTS supply-chain indicators
Data through week of Jul 20, 2026 · source last checked Jul 28, 2026 · page revised Jul 26, 2026
Cite
- Ships at anchor
About this data
- Source
- BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators
- Series
- Container ships at anchor off the coast's ports
- Basis
- Coast-wide anchorage count, not a berth queue or a dwell time
- Geography
- East Coast Coast
- Unit
- vessels
- Calculation
- Weekly reading
- Last observation
- week of Jul 20, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Container ships at anchor off East Coast ports is 2 ships as of week of Jul 20, 2026, below its trailing-12-month normal of 6 ships. This is a coast-wide anchorage count, ships at anchor off East Coast ports. It is related to but broader than a single complex's awaiting-berth queue, and it is not a dwell time.
Container ships at anchor off the East Coast fell to 2 vessels as of the week of July 20, down from 10 vessels the prior week. The count sits well below the trailing-12-month normal of 6 ships.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 2 ships | 10 ships | -80.0% |
| Month over month | 2 ships | 5 ships | -60.0% |
| Year over year | 2 ships | 7 ships | -71.4% |
| vs 5-yr median | 2 ships | 17 ships | -88.2% |
About East Coast ships at anchor
This page counts the container ships at anchor off East Coast ports, the coast-wide anchorage picture, weekly from the BTS supply-chain indicators. It is a broader lens than the per-complex awaiting-berth queue: a ship at anchor off the coast may be waiting for a berth at any of the coast's ports, holding for a schedule, or staged for other reasons, so the two counts are related but not the same number, and neither is a dwell time. Read this page for the coast's overall pressure and the per-complex queue pages for a specific gateway. A rising anchorage count across a coast is the widest early-warning signal the public record carries.