# Long Beach Outbound Rail Up 22%, Nine-Plus-Day Units Fall to 301 _Oct 13, 2026_ > LA/Long Beach stays Flowing. Long Beach outbound rail rose to 3,047 units, up 22% week over week. Nine-plus-day pending units fell 60% to 301. US ships awaiting berth: 3, well below the five-year median. _Numbers as of Oct 13, 2026 pull._ Long Beach total outbound rail units rose to **3,047** this week, up 21.7% week over week from 2,503, per Port of Long Beach data. Outbound-pending containers with nine or more days of rail-yard dwell fell to **301**, a 59.9% drop from 750 the prior week, the largest single-series weekly move in the digest. LA/Long Beach import-friction read is Flowing: ships awaiting berth at zero and the truck planning-time index running below its trailing-12-month normal. [Chart: Ships awaiting berth, All US container ports (vessels)](https://the-dwell.com/waiting/all-us) ([data](https://the-dwell.com/waiting/all-us.md) — chart image: https://the-dwell.com/charts/issues/ports/2026-10-13/waiting/all-us.png) - **Ships awaiting berth, LA/Long Beach** (MARAD/Marine Exchange): 0 ships this week, 100% below the five-year median and below the trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. - **Ships awaiting berth, all US** (MARAD): 3 ships, 88.5% below the five-year median. East Coast ships at anchor: 3 ships, 84.2% below the five-year median. - **Ships awaiting berth, Savannah** (MARAD/Marine Exchange): 1 ship, 92.3% below the five-year median and below the trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. Import-friction read: Flowing. - **Long Beach rail yard, containers with nine-plus-day rail-yard dwell** (Port of Long Beach): 2,968 units, down 10.9% week over week from 3,332. BNSF-specific nine-plus-day count: 2,667 units, up 3.3% week over week from 2,582. - **Truck planning-time index** (BTS): LA/Long Beach at 2.26, below the trailing-12-month normal of 4.07. NY/NJ at 2.23, below the trailing-12-month normal of 3.82. Both complexes at Flowing. LA/Long Beach loaded imports reached 967,013 TEU in the latest available monthly data, above the trailing-12-month normal of 848,128 TEU, per port authority statistics. Per the Port of Los Angeles September 9 release, August volume was 6% above the port's five-year average for the month, capping the busiest three consecutive months in port history. NY/NJ loaded imports: 392,074 TEU, near the trailing-12-month normal of 382,286 TEU. Savannah: 251,888 TEU, near the trailing-12-month normal of 239,584 TEU. Monthly loaded-import TEU figures reflect August 2026, the latest month available. September data has not been published. --- Canonical URL: https://the-dwell.com/issues/2026-10-13