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Oct 28, 2026

Long Beach Nine-Plus-Day Rail Units More Than Double to 3,450

Long Beach nine-plus-day rail units more than doubled to 3,450 week over week. The US ship queue rose to 8 ships. LA/Long Beach holds a some-pressure friction read. POLA set an all-time September volume record.

Numbers as of Oct 28, 2026 pull

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Units sitting nine or more days in Long Beach's outbound rail area hit 3,450 this week, more than doubling week over week from 1,664, per Port of Long Beach data. Units newly crossing the nine-day threshold reached 1,909, up 249.6% from 546 the prior week. The LA/Long Beach import-friction read holds at some pressure.

Ships awaiting berth, All US container ports (vessels)
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  • All-US ships awaiting berth: 8 ships (MARAD and the Marine Exchange), up 60.0% week over week, and 84% below the four-year median.
  • East Coast ships at anchor: 6 ships (MARAD and the Marine Exchange), doubled week over week, 79% below the four-year median.
  • LA/Long Beach ships awaiting berth: 1 ship (Marine Exchange), down 50% week over week and near the trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. Truck planning-time index: 2.34 (BTS), below the trailing-12-month normal of 4.02.
  • Savannah ships awaiting berth: 3 ships (MARAD), near the trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships and 86% below the four-year median. Import-friction read: flowing.
  • LA/Long Beach loaded imports: 1,055,086 TEU for September 2026, above the trailing-12-month normal of 848,128 TEU. The Port of Los Angeles reported September 2026 at 1,042,652 TEU, an all-time monthly record per POLA's Oct 9, 2026 release.
  • NWSA (Seattle/Tacoma): Per the Northwest Seaport Alliance's Oct 19, 2026 release, September 2026 total volume was 265,692 TEU, down 8.1% year over year. Full imports fell 4.4% year over year.

Monthly TEU data lags by several weeks. September figures above are the latest available, not a current-week read.

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