At anchor
Below normalWest Coast ships at anchor
Container ships at anchor off West 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
- West Coast Coast
- Unit
- vessels
- Calculation
- Weekly reading
- Last observation
- week of Jul 20, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Container ships at anchor off West Coast ports is 0 ships as of week of Jul 20, 2026, below its trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. This is a coast-wide anchorage count, ships at anchor off West 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 West Coast ports fell to zero for the week of July 20, down from one ship the prior month and a year ago. The reading sits well below the five-year median of three ships.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 0 ships | 0 ships | n/a |
| Month over month | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| Year over year | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | 0 ships | 3 ships | -100.0% |
About West Coast ships at anchor
This page counts the container ships at anchor off West 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.